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Description: | Copper alloy pilgrim badge. Deeply moulded openwork. Badge of St Roch. Figure of St Roch in centre, wearing a pilgrim hat, with bag and staff (on right). He is exposing a plague buboe at his groin. Small dog rearing up the staff. On left is a kneeling supplicant. St Roch was associated with pilgrimage and the plague. He had a shrine at Montpelier. A similar example form the Netherlands is incomplete. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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