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Description: | Medieval cast lead alloy pilgrim ampulla. Costrel church or 'chasse' shaped - i.e. T-shaped, the base of the T being the mouth/neck, perhaps meant to resemble a reliquary casket. The neck is pinched together, although open at the corners. The handles are broken off. The body of the ampulla is decorated with three shields on either side. On one side the shields are charged with (1) a diagonal line running down to the left (bend sinister), (2) a diagonal cross (saltire), (3) unclear. On the other side the shields are (1) unclear, (2) a cross, (3) a saltire. There is a panel of diagonal lines on the base of the ampulla. Thick cream/light orange-brown patina. Length 34.74mm, width 29.61mm, thickness c.7mm, weight 28.89g.
See Spencer 1998 (Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, London, Stationary Office) p205-6, no.214d for a similar ampulla although with different shields, from the wreck of the Blackfriars barge (Thames), dated to c.1400. | 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: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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