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Description: | An incomplete lead alloy pilgrim badge or souvenir of Medieval date. It is flat, circular in shape with a slightly concave back face and incomplete integral rivet. The exterior edges have the remains of a worn and slightly damaged beaded border, within which is an inner border consisting of two raised circumferential bands. Within the central circular field thus created are the remains of the moulded letters IhC, possibly surmounted by a crown or abbreviation mark and representing the first three letters of the sacred monogram based on the Greek word for Jesus (Ihsus or Ihcuc). The back face has a slight lip running around the outer edge that extends as far as the inner circumferential band on the front face. At its centre the back face is slightly concave and has the remains of an integral cylindrical rivet that has been folded to one side and pushes through the front face of the object. There is a small semi-circular perforation to the left of the initial letter I. The entire object measures 40.93mm in diameter, 11.90mm in height/thickness at centre including rivet, and weighs 16.68g.
This is a devotional badge or pilgrim souvenir relating to Christ, and may have originally been mounted on a wooden object. Similar examples are noted from medieval London (Mitchiner, 1986: nos. 668-669) and Salisbury (Spencer, 1990: no. 77), and part of a stone mould for casting similar badges is also noted from Salisbury (Spencer, 1990: no. 78). These indicate a date in the 14th-15th centuries AD for the current example. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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