Cloth Seal, Suffolk, Alnage, L R Ligate, Image & Found by Reuben Cook.
Found on the Thames Foreshore, 12mm.
Missing // ducal coronet / LR ligate, SUFF OLKE around // crown above undeciphered markings // missing
The inner discs from a four disc Lennox and Richmond alnage seal for Suffolk. The ligature is similar to that on No.102, Fig.24 in G.Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93)' "The ligature is for one of the Dukes or Duchesses of Lennox and Richmond who held the alnage collection patent in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries." and ibid, p.10, "the Duke of Lennox ... was appointed alnager general for England and Wales in 1605."
