Single-sided seal depicting a shield bearing arms of a saltire with curved limbs, and a *chief* charged with a lion *passant* *guardant* and perhaps crowned.
Image description (reverse)
Legend (obverse)
SIGILLVM ROBERTI DE BRVS COMITIS DE CARRIK (“Seal of Robert [de] Bruce, earl of Carrick”).
Legend (reverse)
Catalogue
P/Bru/4/2
Notes
In use c.1285. Contrary to Stevenson and Wood’s claim, there is no evidence that this was the earl’s second seal. Robert also had a third seal and a privy seal, both apparently only in use from the second half of the 1290s onwards.
Dimensions: 1 1/16 in. diameter.
SW II, p.263, no.593.