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Description: | Circular badge with a standing figure facing forwards. The figure is wearing a crown, with trefoil tips, a long frock with large sleeves. a mantle with a semi-circular collar. In the figures right hand is an orb and cross, and a sceptre in the left. The background is diapered. Pellets on the edge of the badge provides the image with a frame, however there is slight damage. The reverse has a central cast seam which has a square sectioned pin above. A bent stud provides the catchplate.Helen Geake writes: A very similar, but not mould-identical, badge from London is illustrated in Spencer 1998 (fig. 208), and there are two more fairly close parallels in the Salisbury Museum Catalogue (Spencer 1990, cat. nos. 117 and 118, figs. 157-8). These badges depict Henry VI; further findspots are listed in Spencer 1998. Henry VI was put to death in the Tower of London in 1471, and began to be the object of popular devotion almost at once. The solid medallion-like form is characteristic of later pilgrim badges.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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