Much further west, not far from the Old Quay in Carmarthen, a Mr Hodson was replacing in 1988 a sewer under No. 3 St Mary’s Street, when he chanced upon, at a depth of 12 ft (3.66 m) below present street level, another seal which very probably came by sea. It was the bronze matrix of the seal of the medieval borough of Grampound in Cornwall (Fig. 14.15).²⁴ That borough was granted its first charter in 1332 by John Plantagenet, earl of Cornwall, who died in Scotland four years later. He was but a boy of 16 when in his name the charter was granted, and Grampound remained a borough until 1822. The seal depicts a great bridge of two arches, on the foremost of which is a shield bearing the arms of the young earl: a bordure charged with seven roundels. This reflects the Norman-French name for the village of Grand Pont, the great bridge over the river Fal. And the legend (in Latin) spells it out: ‘The seal of the provost and burgesses of the borough of Grampound’.