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Description: | Early post medieval lead alloy political badge fragment, early 16th century. Originally a circular disc, roughly a third survives (left side only). The design on the obverse is of a male bust facing half-left; he wears a low cap depicted by two lines, the lower line being in higher relief, suggesting a peak; moustache and neat pointed beard; there are three oblique bands across the right shoulder, the inner (right) band being narrower and undecorated, the middle line decorated with a longitudinal line of dots (the collar of honour/office - see below), the outer (left) band decorated with ?zig-zag lines (unclear). Double line border, the outer line being wider; incomplete decorative projections from the edge at 12 o'clock and 7 o'clock. The reverse bears a crudely trimmed casting line running from top to bottom; on the casting line, at what would have been the centre of the object, is an irregularly-shaped raised knop, unperforated but with a depression on one side - this could be a broken loop or an unfinished poorly cast loop. Light grey patina. Length (not quite diameter) 35.33mm, width 19.6mm, thickness including sprue 5.33mm, thickness at edge 1.5mm, weight 5.04g.Geoff Egan writes:[The figure is] an early C16th potentate with a collar of office/honour around his neck - could perhaps be a bad Henry VIII?? These are perhaps post- or even in a sense anti- pilgrim badges - not fully understood, but a growing phenomenon.
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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