Cloth Seal, Glocestershire, Alnage

Cloth Seal, Glocestershire, Alnage, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 15mm, 1.6g.

Missing // .3. / ?N, GLO...O* around // missing // missing

A star-shaped inner disc from a four-part 3d. Glocestershire alnage seal. Identified by Paul Cannon, "In the centre; . 3. / TN and at 12 o’clock reading *GLO[………….. 16.]0. Presumably ‘Glosters’ followed by the date ending in a zero. For similar seals with different dates see: Provenanced Leaden Cloth Seals by Geoffrey Egan, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London, submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987, p122, eg no: 1626 plus another and PAS LON-3903B0. The new example has the same basic star shape."

TN are likely to be the initials of Thomas Nappier / Napper, the son of Richard Napper.