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Description: | Lead pilgrim's flask of stock design, East Anglian type (Mitchiner). The belly of the flask is very distinctly circular, 41mm in diameter. The neck is slightly flared, being 19mm wide at the base and c21mm at the mouth. There were two small suspensory lugs, one now missing, rounded (not angled) in form and mounted not on the neck but on the shoulders of the round part of the flask. The design on both sides is the same, a compass drawn six-pointed star within a circle, and with a W formed of two overlapping Vs on the margin outside the enclosing circle: this is presumably a mark for Walsingham as place of manufacture, as suggested but not demonstrated by Mitchiner. See his no 410 p 145. As in the case of another ampulla from the same findspot, this has been deliberately sealed at the mouth by hammering. One side of the mouth shows two powerful indentations, and the other side has a larger, more diffuse depression as if from a hammer, and a series of small pecks into the lead. If as supposed in the other record this is to seal in the contained holy water, it may point to a ritual usage in a custom such as 'blessing the fields', described by Mitchener. See PAS counterpart records SF-7B3C20 and SF-7AECF5. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plunkett, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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