BSG.CS.01600 — Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, Monogram, 1575~1700

Found on Thames Foreshore between Queenhithe Dock & Southwark Bridge, 13mm.

Monogram pattern of pellets to sides (SJ?) // blank

Dyers one-part (bulla type) seal, Very similar to those shown in Fig.37 in Geoff Egans 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' which he categorises as a dyer's one part seals found ‘in some numbers ... from Trig Stairs to London Bridge’. He dates them from the late 16th to 17th centuries.