Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Cross Bay

Cloth Seal, Colchester Dutch Community Seal, Cross Bay, Image & Found by José de Sousa.
Found in the Algarve, Portugal, 33.4mm, 9.98g.

Ornate shield bearing three crowns and the top of a cross raguly, 15 71 to sides // missing but possible partial griffin on rivet stub

The rivet disc from a two-disc Colchester Dutch weaver's cross bay seal. The arms are an adaptation of the arms of Colchester.

This seal is evidence of the cloth trade between Colchester and Portugal.