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Description: | Fragment of a cast lead alloy pilgrim's badge depicting what appears to be the mitre of a bishop, which has a central triangle with oblique lines on both sides, creating a rope effect, and a spherical knop at the apex of the triangle.See a cast lead pilgrim badge of the head of St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, with a similar mitre with rope-like borders in SWYOR-B6B054. This type of pilgrim badge is one of a well-known series of badges that are miniature copies of the life-sized enriched mitred-bust reliquary of St Thomas located in Canterbury Catherdral in the 14th century. The bust was adorned with many jewels, which are represented on this lead miniature by the series of moulded pellets. Offerings made at Canterbury Cathedral show that the popularity of the head reliquary peaked in 1420. The badge would have been worn on the hat or on the outer clothing and would have been used as an amulet. The supposed miracle-working powers of reliquaries was also thought to transfer onto the objects copied from them, hence the popularity of pilgrim badges.See also SOMDOR-29F941, LIN-D80A35 and NCL-AE4D13.Pilgrim badges were popular at English shrines during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Spencer, 1998, 78).Spencer (1990) illustrates similar details on pilgrims' badges: a border around the Virigin Mary on page 75, Fig.59, a hat on the Virgin Mary on page 77, Fig.85, and a headdress of multiple tiered triangles and spheres on page 80, Fig.118.
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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