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Description: | Early post medieval lead alloy political badge fragment, early 16th century. Originally a circular disc, roughly a third survives (left side only). The design on the obverse is of a male bust facing half-left; he wears a low cap depicted by two lines, the lower line being in higher relief, suggesting a peak; moustache and neat pointed beard; there are three oblique bands across the right shoulder, the inner (right) band being narrower and undecorated, the middle line decorated with a longitudinal line of dots (the collar of honour/office - see below), the outer (left) band decorated with ?zig-zag lines (unclear). Double line border, the outer line being wider; incomplete decorative projections from the edge at 12 o'clock and 7 o'clock. The reverse bears a crudely trimmed casting line running from top to bottom; on the casting line, at what would have been the centre of the object, is an irregularly-shaped raised knop, unperforated but with a depression on one side - this could be a broken loop or an unfinished poorly cast loop. Light grey patina.
Length (not quite diameter) 35.33mm, width 19.6mm, thickness including sprue 5.33mm, thickness at edge 1.5mm, weight 5.04g.
Geoff Egan writes:
[The figure is] an early C16th potentate with a collar of office/honour around his neck - could perhaps be a bad Henry VIII?? These are perhaps post- or even in a sense anti- pilgrim badges - not fully understood, but a growing phenomenon. | Subjects: | political | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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