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Description: | Incomplete cast lead pilgrim ampulla of Medieval date, probably fourteenth or fifteenth century. Length 44.5mm, width 27.5mm and a maximum thickness of 7mm. Weight 29.01g. The ampulla has been flattened and is also bent and the rim has a damaged and ragged edge. One of the suspension loops is broken and missing and the loop on the other side is complete but disfigured. The body is pouch shaped and the sides of the neck are vertical for the most part but flare outwards at the rim. Viewing the side with the intact suspension loop to the right, the body has moulded decoration in the form of a geometric grid pattern and the neck has moulded lines. These decorative features may represent the hull and the sails of a sailing vessel although, due to wear or poor quality of the casting, this is not clear. Viewing the side with the intact suspension loop to left, there are decorative moulded lines on the neck although these are only just visible and do not form a recognisable pattern or motif. On this side is a large crack which extends across the body just beneath the suspension loops. The ampulla appears to be in a stable condition.
The only ampulla with a similar grid pattern known to the recorder is one published and illustrated in Mills, N. 1999. Medieval Artefacts. 40, ref. NM 87. Greenlight Publishing. Witham: Essex. | 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: | 1200
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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