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Description: | Lead alloy pilgrim's badge of St. Anne with the head of the Virgin Mary, crowned as the Queen of Heaven, to the left. St. Anne holds a book between her hands and is teaching her daughter how to read. The Saint wears a nun's headdress, consisting of a coif, veil and whimple, and a habit with a long skirt, decorated with beaded vertical lines, representing the folds of her dress, divided by oblique lines in two panels and cross-hatching along the hem. The chamfered pin has been bent away from the back of the badge and is now curved around the head of St. Anne. The badge may have come from her shrine at Buxton, Derbyshire, but relics of St. Anne were also claimed by Canterbury, Reading and Durham, and so it may alternatively have been produced at one of these places. The cult of St. Anne was especially strong in the 15th century, and this badge can be dated to that time. She was a patron of King Edward IV whose devotion was fortified by a miracle at Daventry on Palm Sunday in 1471.Spencer (1998) illustrates a similar example from London which shows the figures at full length on pages 176-7, No.196c.
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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