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Description: | Fragment of lead alloy pilgrims badge or souvenir dating from the early 14th to early 15th centuries. The fragment is a face from a badge which is likely to have commemorated a reliquary known as the Head of St Thomas (Caput Thome) which held the portion of Thomas Becket's skull that was cut off when he was killed. The full badge would have depicted the bust of the archbishop with his mitre. The face is fairly realistic and cast in quite high relief with almond shaped eyes. The reverse is slightly hollow with scratch marks. The face measures 21.3mm in length, 22.7mm in width, 3.8mm in thickness and weighs 5.73g. | 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: | 1320
1420 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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