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Description: | Lead cloth seal with one disc surviving, measuring c. 20.5 mm in diameter. Geoff Egan has identified this seal (pers comm 9/2006) as a London Dyers' Company seal from the early 17th century. It bears a standing figure, possibly an American Indian, with a bow and arrow. To either side of his lower legs are the initials T C. A similar design, but without the initials, is known on a couple of near parallels - one in the British Museum catalogue (Egan, 1995, 187, fig 36, no. 275), and the other from near Trig Lane on the Thames foreshore in the City of London. This was the location of the dyehouse where these particular seals were put on newly coloured cloths. The rivet on the other face has part of the cording of a madderbag, the general symbol of dyers, although the actual dye used on this cloth is more likely to have been woad, a blue dye.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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