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Description: | Lead Alloy and possibly stoneFinger Ring, possibly a pilgrim souvenir. Cast band made from a strip of rolled lead sheet of width circa 5mm, soldered to a composite bezel; the metal of the ring is darker than that of its bezel. The bezel comprises two plates of quatrefoil form, each circa 1mm thick, joined together with either voids circa 2mm wide or, in one place, white chalky material, between them. The object is abraded, and only very lightly patinated. The quatrefoils enclosing either a void or other material whose partial survival may be indicated, point to a medieval date, and to a function analogous to that of container badges such as ampullae. Openwork quatrefoil badges of the 14th-century are speculatively associated with Faversham, a station on the pilgrim route to Canterbury (Mitchiner, M. 1986, Medieval Pilgrim and Secular Badges, Hawkins Publications, London, page 85, nos 179-182); quatrefoils also adorn the ends of contemporary souvenirs of the Great Rood of St Pauls, London (ibid., page 91, nos 206-7). This object appears to reuse such objects in a form that could be worn or suspended. The scraping of crumbs of the fabric of shrines or their surroundings was also regarded as efficacious for the same purposes as other manufactured badges - and indeed the damage this caused was one reason for the marketing of badges - though without specialist analysis the nature of the material trapped in the bezel remains uncertain. Suggested date: Late Medieval 1350-1500..Internal diameter: circa 16mm, Bezel Length: 23.2mm, Bezel Width: 19.2mm, Bezel thickness: 5.8mm, Weight: 9.28gms.
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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