BSG.CS.02010 — Cloth Seal, Cross Recercely Seal

Found on Thames Foreshore, 23mm.

Blank // cross recercely

A cloth seal bearing an uncommon design known in heraldry as a cross recercely, an extra curly cross moline. These arms are associated with the family name of Copley.

Another example of this seal showing a fused pellet border around the cross recercely was found in the same place by the same finder.