BSG.CS.00309 — Cloth Seal, Searcher's Seal

Found on Thames foreshore, 20 x 18mm.

Single segment most likely from a four part lozenge sectioned seal. SEA / RCH / ED in a rope border with a pierced mullet in two corners and probably all corners.

See No.51 Fig.18 Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items from the British Museum. "Lozenge-shaped parts .... COM/KENT/1618/pierced mullet"

See John GM's Cloth Seal, Kent, 1618 which could well be from the same series. Note that seal was also found on the Thames foreshore.