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Description: | A corroded, slightly damaged (and now incomplete) cast lead-alloy medieval pilgrim's ampulla. The artefact is flask-shaped, with a rounded lower chamber. The upper half is sub-trapezoidal, expanding slightly at the top, albeit with one corner missing (W.: 25.5mm). The top is finished diagonally and also it is creased; maybe the creasing is the result of an historic sealing of the vessel. Both suspension loop/handle lugs survive, although they have both been bent and one broken through. The ampulla is decorated bifacially on the lower chamber. On one surface are numerous incised longitudinal grooves to create a scallop-shell, best classified as Spencer type II. About halfway up the upper half is a transverse ridge. On the other surface is a centrally stamped crowned initial 'W' within a double border, outside of which thin raised diagonal lines. This area is somewhat depressed; the rest of the lower chamber is thick (at 5.4mm). There is a casting seam along the edges of the ampulla. The object is creased above the chamber. This has resulted in a small puncture on the face with the crowned 'W' and a somewhat larger loss from which cracks emanate on the other surface. It has generally corroded to an off-white colour. This artefact is almost a cross between two ampullae illustrated in Spencer (1990, 88-89; refs. 179, 180).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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