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Description: | Incomplete lead pilgrims badge. The badge is flat, roughly triangular in plan, and has two incomplete studs on the reverse. The badge is in the form of the bust of a figure, perhaps a Bishop or King. The figure is shown wearing what may be a pallium, chasuble and maniple, and in his right hand he holds a cross staff. The collar is decorated with a row of pellets nad the robe is ribbed. There is a collar of circles at the base. In the centre of the body and the base there is a crowned human head.
The identification of the figure is inclear. The crowned head (?male or female) is shown on what could be the chest of a protecting bishop, but the spotted 'collar' at the top of the surviving piece might represent ermine, and the two lateral areas with hatching (?for drapery folds) seem to end at the surviving/original edge - ie they do and did not extend far enough to be consistent with the usual episcopal collar (though there was a strut going upwards on the left), so it is possible that this larger figure is also regal?. The border of annulets, while not the most difficult motif to come up with, is parallelled at about the same level of crudeness on some of the very large and complicated badges for Thomas of Lancaster (see Spencer
1998, 202 fig. 213a - these tend to have a northern focus within England once one gets beyond London, but they are thinly widespread).
The badge is probable representative of St Thomas Becket or Thomas of Lancaster. | Subjects: | pilgrim | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daubney, Adam - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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