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Description: | A slightly damaged and corroded 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 (W.: 28.9mm). The top has been creased together; maybe the creasing is the result of an historic sealing of the vessel. Both rounded suspension loop/handle lugs survive, although they have both been squashed in.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 double ridge with diagonals within, aligned to the top of the handles. On the other surface is a centrally stamped crowned initial 'W' within a double border, outside of which thin raised diagonal lines on the bevelled egde. The interior of both surfaces is somewhat depressed; the rest of the lower chamber is thick (at 5.2mm). There is a casting seam along the edges of the ampulla. 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), and is similar to others recorded on this database.
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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