This single-sided seal depicts the abbot, front face with mitre, holding a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left. To *dexter* is a rosette of eleven petals and to *sinister* is an *estoile* of six points *wavy*, above a crescent.
Image description (reverse)
Legend (obverse)
SIG[ILL]VM [HE]RBERT[I ABB]ATIS [DE CALCHOV] (“Seal of Herbert, abbot of Kelso”)
Legend (reverse)
Catalogue
A/Kels/2/1
Notes
Dimensions: approx. 2 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (cf. Greenwell and Blair, 57 × 41 mm.)
SW I, p.188.
Durham 3667 (1).