Oval,
Stone: St Michael & St Wulfhad
Brit.Lib.:
A few years ago, a seal was discovered in Cobham, Surrey, belonging to Stone Priory, Staffs. How it ended up in a field in Cobham, no-one knows. The good people of Stone stumped up £8000 to buy it from a detectorist (ouch), and it's now back in Stone. And quite right, too. It's a lovely seal.
You can read a description of it and see more pictures here.
The legend is +S'ECCE SCE MARIE ET SCI W(V)LFADI MARTIRIS DE STANIS. The BVM appears to be holding a distaff.
No reverse matrix survives, so far as we know; perhaps that would have had the junior saint of the priory's dedication, St Wulfade, on it!
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