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Description: | Ampulla, length 53mm, width 32mm, thickness 6mm. Scallop shell design, with a long neck that would have been folded back on its self. The neck of the vessel is complete and has been straitened out so that it is 25mm long, 23mm wide . At the base of the neck that is some damage, resulting a large crack removing a triangular section from the left side of the base. At this point there would have been two handles/suspension loops, one on either side, however, as a result of the damage that left one is missing. That main body of the vessel expands into a scallop shell design 32mm wide. On the obverse there is a backwards facing S with a crown above. There reverse has horizontal lines fanning out towards the base, imitating the contours of a shell. The vessel has bee flattened and as mentioned above damage has occurred to the left side of the artefact, but otherwise it is in a fair condition with all of the detail still visible. The artefact is made of lead and has a creamy surface which is a coating of lead oxide. These artefacts would have originally been sold in monasteries and cathedrals as pilgrim souvenirs and would have contained holy water usually associated with a relic etc that was thought to has spiritual properties. That backwards facing maybe and indicator that this example was from Salisbury Cathedral.
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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