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Description: | Medieval lead openwork badge, 22mm in height and 20mm wide. It is in the shape of an M, or W, with both open ends curving inwards to join the middle part of the letter, which is decorated with a criss-cross pattern. To the bottom and middle of this area is a split, knobbly on both sides - perhaps puposeful or perhaps where the object has worn and bent - as both arms curve outwards then upwards. The reverse is flat and plain, although the object has been bent. The arms of the letter are also decorated, one with ?criss-cross (it is rather worn) and the other with three horizontal mouldings. To the top of the M or W is rounded projection, oddly lopsided, though not obviously damaged in any way. Perhaps the 'letter' is in fact an eagle, and the lopsided projection is its head, turned to the right. The wings would then be the arms of the letters, the middle criss-cross section the body, and the split and knobbly area the claws. Unlike any pilgrim badges in Spencer's Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, 1998.
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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