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Description: | A lead, flask-shaped, pilgrim's ampulla with moulded designs on both faces. One face has a perimeter of four circles containing a voided chevron, with simple chequer-type design below. The chequer-type design comprises two overlapping zig-zag lines of segments each.The other face has a Spencer, type 1, scallop-shell design. The flask is elaborately flared in comparison to the majority of scallop-shall ampullae where the waist is more slender. There are eighteen ribs to the scallop-shell. The suspension loops are intact but one is bent. The top of the neck appears not to have been opened.Tom Redmayne has noted that ampullae with the voided chevron and zig-zagged line motif have a distribution strongly focussed in Lincolnshire, especially between a northing line starting at Lincoln and south of the Humber estuary. They are presumably the product of a local shrine such as Lincoln, Louth or Bardney.
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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