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Description: | A corroded, damaged and incomplete cast lead-alloy medieval pilgrim's ampulla. The artefact is flask-shaped, with a rounded, sub-circular lower chamber. The upper half is broadly rectangular, seemingly expanding slightly at the top (W.: 21.2mm). The top has suffered extensive losses on both sides. The suspension loop/handle lugs are now both vestigial. Level with them is a puncture through one face, which, on the other, extends to a large loss to one side. Below this the lower chamber is depressed with a central puncture. The ampulla is decorated bifacially on the lower chamber. On one surface are numerous low ribs to create a basic scallop-shall, best classified as Spencer type II. On the other surface is a median rib from which emerge diagonal ribs that angle downwards; chevrons across the whole field. There is a casting seam along the edges of the ampulla. No direct parallels have been yet found for this rather basic patterning.
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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