BSG.CS.00863 — Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, WPA

Found in Norfolk, 21mm.

Privy mark based on patriarchal cross rising from cleft of a heart divided into three sections containing W P A // missing (rivet stub blank)

Cloth workers personal seal tentatively dated to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries based on style.

See p.78, Geoff Egan, 1994, Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum, British Museum Occasional paper 93.