Cloth Seal, Norfolk, Alnage, Rose & Sun Joined, Image & Held by Michel Royer.
Found in Gdansk / Danzig region, 25 mm, 18.3g.
Undeciphered markings and scratches // crown over rose & sun dimidiated and conjoined, S' (VLNAG') PANNOR' trefoil IN trefoil COM' NORF' trefoil (Lombardic script)
Two-disc Norfolk alnage seal.
Geoff Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M.' (B.M.occ.papers 93), shows an alnage seal from Bristol, No.4 Fig.8 that exhibits the crown over rose and sun halved and joined and quotes North to tie this symbol in with the dates 1471 - 90 through its appearance on coins. Egan also shows three seals Nos.110, 111, & 113 Fig.25 with the same 'crown over ornate shield with the arms of England, rose and sun to sides' that he dates to late medieval "perhaps the last quarter of the fifteenth century".
