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Description: | A lead alloy ampulla or holy water container dating from the medieval period. The ampulla is 56.4mm long, 31.8mm wide and 8.3mm thick. It is almost complete with just some damage to the neck and the handles. It has a typical shape of a wide flared neck above a rounded body. There is a band of two raised lines round the base of the neck and one side of the body is decorated with hatched edges, a central hatched circle containing within it a crown over a lozenge shape containing a motif, possibly an anchor. The top of the neck is not crimped, but there is a pierced hole in the reverse of the body suggesting that it was sealed, and was pierced to release the water. Ampulla are known from 1175 ?? 1500 (Spencer, 1990), but are most common from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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