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Description: | Medieval Lead pilgrim badge, cast in the form of a comb with damaged loop at one end (21 x 21mm) and squashed lug on reverse. The two-sided liturgical comb is the emblem of St Blaise, an early 4th-cent. Bishop and martyr in Asia Minor, who is said to have been torn by iron combs before his beheading. He consequently became the patron saint of wool-combers, and remains the patron saint of those who suffer throat ailments to this day. His was in Canterbury, and continued to attract pilgrims in the 15th century. Cf. Spencer (1998) 178, fig.198f and 178.
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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