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Description: | An incomplete lead ampulla. This ampulla would have been pouch-shaped when complete and its top half is now bent over and is partly missing, its surviving length is 33mm and width 28mm. It has one suriving suspension lug, at the base of the neck, which is oval in shape with an oval perforation through its centre. Both faces of the body of this ampulla have moulded longdituinal lines on them. This design is similar to those made at Walsingham and nearly all the ampulla alluding to Walsingham have been found in East Anglia to date (Mitchiner 1986, 138-146). Mitchiner (1986, 138) suggests that as most of the East Anglian ampullae have been found on arable land, on which other relics are not found, that the lead ampullae were made for the annual religious festival of 'blessing the fields' each spring. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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