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Description: | A cast lead ampulla, broken in two (length: 52.9mm; width: 34.2mm; thickness: 14.9mm; weight: 30.37g). The badly damaged ampulla has a rounded bottom with a floral three armed design on one side with a bar through the middle and three pellets at either side, contained inside a beaded border. On the other side, there is some evidence of possible scroll design, but the artefact is too worn and corroded to tell. The neck becomes narrow and thin above the rounded bottom, but tapers of towards the mouth at the top. There is no evidence for side loops which would have enabled the flask to be suspended from the neck. Generally, this artefact is in a poor and corroded condition with a powdery surface.Similar examples are illustrated in Spencer's 'Pilgrim Souvenirs & Secular Badges' as part of Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum's Medieval catalogue, pages 57-62 & 89-92. Spencer includes that 'ampullae or miniature phials were another important kind of pilgrim souvenir. Generally flask-shaped, but with a narrow, flattish section, they were designed to conatin a dose of the thaumaturgic water that was dispensed to pilgrims at many shrines and holy wells'. Pilgrim ampullae were well-used in England between 1350-1530 AD.
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