Cloth Seal, James I, Alnage, Lion, Crown, Image & Found by Dave Hiddleston.
Found on Thames foreshore, near Leadenhall Street, 50 x ?mm.
A complete four disc alnage seal opened out, showing on the inner discs, 2 & 3, a crowned lion passant guardant and a crown respectively. On the outer discs, 1 & 4, is a design made indecipherable by the rove being stripped from the head of the rivet.
Other examples have been found with stamps that date this type of seal to the reign of James I, see No.126, Fig.26, Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, Occasional Paper 93.
