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Description: | A cast lead pilgrim badge or religious pendant of the late 15 or early 16 century.The badge is composed of a lead disc decorated on both faces, but lacking any form of suspension and bearing evidence of having once been bent.One face has the Crucifixion with a possible Mary-figure and St John in attendance to either side of the crucifix. The other face bears St Margaret bursting triumphantly out of the dragon that had just swallowed her. There are several related finds which substitute IHS for the crucifixion, including NLM5728. Mitchiner (1986:174, no. 551) assigns these to the church of St Margaret at Kings Lynn (from their then East-Anglian distribution - this is being supplemented and expanded by more recent finds, including the present one, and so is by no means certain - they may not have had a single origin). The suspension loop at the top of the badge no longer remains, having broken off where it meets the main disc.
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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