Alexander on horseback to *sinister*, wearing armour and a surcoat, and with a lance couched in his right hand, and a convex shield bearing arms of, apparently, a *fess* *chequy*. Below is a flowering bush, and there is a branch of foliage and flowers behind the rider’s elbow.
Image description (reverse)
A shield bearing arms of a *fess* *chequy*.
Legend (obverse)
[. . . SE]NESCALLI RE[GIS . . . ]
Legend (reverse)
. . . XANDRI ∙ FILII . . . . . . . . (reverse). Stevenson and Wood suggest that the legend on both sides of the seal originally read SIGILLUM ALEXANDRI FILII WALTERI SENESCALLI REGIS SCOCIE (“Seal of Alexander, son of Walter, stewart of the king of Scotland”).
Catalogue
P/Stew/4
Notes
Stevenson and Wood suggest that the legend on both sides of the seal originally read SIGILLUM ALEXANDRI FILII WALTERI SENESCALLI REGIS SCOCIE (“Seal of Alexander, son of Walter, stewart of the king of Scotland”).
Dimensions: 2 ½ in. diameter.
SW III, p.600.