Cloth Seal, Somerset, Alnage, PW, Image by StuE, Found by Ged & Angel.
Found in Yorkshire, 17mm, 2.0g.
Missing // P over W, 4to the left of the P, SOMERSET five pointed star four five-armed asterisks five pointed star around // missing // missing
The P over W is believed to be the mark of a particular alnager - see PROVENANCED LEADEN CLOTH SEALS by GEOFFREY EGAN, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaelogy, University College, University of London. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987. "An inner disc has, [P over W] +SOM... SET around (recorded from a cast) This post-Restoration alnager WP or PW is known on other seals from the west of England dated between 1665 and at least 1676."
The figure 4 is interesting as it most probably gives the alnage/subsidy charge for the cloth it was attached to.
