This single-sided seal depicts a bear *passant* to *sinister*, in front of a tree of three branches.
Image description (reverse)
Legend (obverse)
[SIGILLV]M BVRGENSIVM . . . (“Seal of the burgesses…”)
Legend (reverse)
Catalogue
B/Ber/1
Notes
Dimensions: 1 5/8 in. diameter.
SW I, p.55.
Note: Stevenson and Wood catalogue three burgh seals for Berwick. This is the third, but it seems, in fact, the earliest, in use by 1235-6. The other seals are (1) from a matrix of 1292 struck for Edward I of England and (2) a double-sided seal in use by 1330 and in conjunction with a counterseal (not noted by Stevenson and Wood; cf. Laing, _Supplemental descriptive catalogue_, no.1203).