Cloth Seal, Suffolk, Alnage, ToH, Thistle

Cloth Seal, Suffolk, Alnage, ToH, Thistle, Image by Derfel, Found by Peter Olivant.
Found on Thames foreshore, ?mm.

Blank // ToH ligature, SUFOL around, square border // thistle, square border // blank

See Egan, G., 1987, seal 2360 A-D, 4827 & 4871, p.221. These have a T mounted on the horizontal bar of the H with a small o on the vertical of the T as can be seen on the second disc of this seal. Egan describes it as a mark and does not associate it with the TH / HT alnager with a similar ligature known from Essex, Surrey and Kent seals. The abbreviation COM for county precedes Suffolk on this seal. The seals listed by Egan all show the same SVFOL (COMSVFOL) without the K and have a thistle on the third disc.

See seal BSG.CS.00391.