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Description: | Medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla, complete with handles, but flattened. The ampulla is made from cast lead and while its seal neck (pinshed together) is plain, the body is decorated with a scallop-shell on one side and possibly two letters ('h' and 'd' in small Gothic textura letters(?)) on the other.
B Spencer, 1980, p. 17 writes: "Ampulla[s were often] decorated with a scallop shell and sealed by pinching together [their] narrow mouths. Suspended from their handles, it would have been worn around the pilgrim's neck. Through associated with the pilgrimage to St James of Compostela (Santiago), the scallop ws also widely thoughgt of as the emblem of pilgrimage itself and shrines other than Compostela incoporated the shell into their own souvenirs. Ampullae with the scallop have turned up in many parts of England, especially in East Anglia. Usually, they have additional devices, which, taken together, point to Walsingham as their likeliest place of origin." | Subjects: | Pilgrim's | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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