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Description: | Damaged and incomplete 14th century lead secular badge, depicting a human ?male bust within a circle of ring-and-pellets (bound on either side by a rib). The damage is across the right side of face and shoulders, as you look at it.
The figure appears to have quite bushy hair on the undamaged side, and the neck and top of body are triangular in shape bound by a line of four small pellets at the base.
It measures 25mm in diameter and is 1mm thick. It weighs 4.89g.
The reverse is rather fragile, the rectangular-sectioned pin being bent and only just remaining attached. A small catch is at the bottom.
This piece is unusual in that it is not openwork as similar examples of these badges are. Cf Brian Spencer's Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, 1998 nos.324, 324a, 342b. | 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: | 1301
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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