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English: Seal of David, Earl of Huntingdon. The seal dates to about 1160. It shows an armed knight on horseback, with sword drawn in his right hand, and a shield in his left hand. Only one or two letters of the inscription are visible.
Date No later than 1866, the year the book was published.
Source Laing, H, ed. (1866). Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, Embracing the Period from A.D. 1150 to the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. The seal appears in plate 4, figure 2. It is noted on page xxv, and described on page 87.
Author Unknown. Not credited in book.

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