Cloth Seal, Exeter, Alnage, Unicorns Supporting Three Plumes
Cloth Seal, Exeter, Alnage, Unicorns Supporting Three Plumes, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 12 x 16mm, 2.6g.
Two sub-rectangular sections from a four sectioned alnage seal. Five rayed star inscription above EXON, .77. below, all in border of annulets // two unicorns supporting a coronet with three plumes through, all in border of circle and annulets.
See P.73, 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. "(i.e. 1677)The inner parts here are square and the outer parts are round" Also No.128, Fig.26, Geoff Egan, 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93. Suggesting it could be Charles II.