BSG.OS.00056 — Wire or Metalwork Seal, Double-headed Eagle

Found near Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28mm.

Double-headed eagle // horn above privy mark with I T to sides (and incorporated)

These type of seals are sigle discs with a loop at the top (often missing as here) through which a wire attached them to rods or other metal work (often bronze vessels such as cauldrons).

See See also Allex Kussendrager, Handels-, merk-, messing-, koper- of eigendomsloden, loodjes met een draagoog, m.u.v. laken- pinneloden for a large collection of them, which include some with very similar markings to this seal.

See also Lakenlood met huismerk, Bodemvondstenwereld for example with crowned N.