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Description: | Cast lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla dating from the 14th/15th century. The ampulla is complete and unusually tall with long handles (on either side), one of which is slightly miscast. The area around the neck is decorated with a zigzag pattern on both sides and while the obverse displays a pattern which was probably meant to imitate the back of a scallop shell, the reverse shows a simple raised circle in the lower part of the body. It does not seem like there was something inside the circle, however. The neck of the ampulla is no longer pinched shut; it is slightly open which probably means that the contents - holy water, presumably coming from one of the well known medieval shrines (i.e. Walsingham, Norfolk or Canterbury, Kent) - had been used up or dried up before it was lost or, more likely, discarded. | 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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