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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast lead-alloy medieval pilgrim's ampulla. The artefact is flask-shaped, with a rounded lower chamber. On one side the suspension loop/handle lug survives, albeit it was seemingly never perforated. The ampulla is decorated bifacially. On one surface is a crowned human face surrounded by radiating lines (??hair, perhaps including a beard), too generic to identify as a particular individual. Decoration on the other surface would appear to be in the shape of a quatrefoil, with pellets arranged in a line in some petals and lines radiating from the centre either in adjoining petals or the gaps between. The object has been bent about halfway along its original height. This has resulted in the loss of the upper part (including detachment of the surviving lug, which the finder has glued back in place). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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