Cloth Seal, Yorkshire, Alnage, Crowned Fleur-de-Lise, W I I G
Cloth Seal, Yorkshire, Alnage, Crowned Fleur-de-Lise, W I I G, Image & Found by Chasm_norwich.
Found in Swannington, Norfolk, 19mm, 10.1g.
Blank // W / I.I / G, COM...EBOR around // crowned fleur-de-lise, pellets to sides // blank
A complete four-disc alnage seal for Yorkshire, COM EBOR - County of Yorkshire in post medieval abbreviated Latin. The initials probably stand for the alnager / searcher. These types of seals are usually dated to the early 17th century.
See p.143, MOL 78.227/15, Elton, Cloth Seals, Archaeopress, 20017.
See also PAS SF-5C779E, which shows that an outer disc was probably stamped with the legend [SE]RCHED.
And see PAS NLM-731615 for a parallel.