BSG.CS.01206 — Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Taunton, Christopher Roach

Found near Baldock, North Hertfordshire, ?mm.

T crossed with a barrel or tun, TANTON SARGES around in annulus // 165?, CHRISTOPHER ROACH around (HE ligate)

The seal of the clothier Christopher Roach who dealt in Taunton serges. The object on the T has been interpreted as a tun as that would imply a rebus of Taunton.

From Peter Maunder, "The T and the "tun" are a well-known rebus for Taunton".