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Description: | A medieval silver badge.It is in the form of a crowned Lombardic complex letter M, with horizontal bars to left and right of the centre stroke, thus creating all the letters of MARIA into a single character. The reverse is flat and undecorated, with a horizontal band (4.6mm wide) of solder across the centre. It is 10.31mm long and 9.51mm wide, weighing 0.65g. A silver badge of similar type dating to the 15th century is illustrated in the Treasure Annual report 2003, no.131. Spencer 1998 illustrates several examples (though no exact parallel) of this type of badge which relate to the cult of Our Lady. Nos. 166-167 are similar to but twice the size of this example. No.170 combines all the letters of MARIA in one character.
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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