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Description: | Medieval lead ampulla of Brian Spencer's Type I (Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 2, 1990, p.59), in the true scallop style with a crenelated edge and defined shoulders (the edge of the scallop kicks out slightly at the top edge). One lug handle is missing, one is squashed flat against the side.The ampulla measures 50.5mm in length and is max.36.4mm wide around the scallop end. The neck is 30.6mm wide at the open end. The ampulla weighs 47.86g.Although now rather squashed and damaged on one side, the decoration is still clear. On one side a scallop, the sign of pilgrimage as well as the badge of St James of Compostela, on the other a now feint concentric circle within which is the ribbed outline of an X, above a crenellated edge and edge-flanking scalloping. On this face the neck has a split running from the open edge almost to the scalloped edge.Some ampulla date as early as 1145, but those in Spencer 1990, similar to this example, are given the broad date range of 1350-1530.Cf. Spencer 1990 figs.171-74.
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