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Description: | A complete lead or lead alloy cross of Medieval dating (circa AD 1200 - 1500).The cross is a plain or Latin Cross in plan and rectangular in cross section. The front of the cross has thin incised grooves that form an inside border of the cross. There is a diamond shape incised in the central point of the cross. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The cross appears to have sustained some damage, the base arm of the cross has been bent at a right angle and now the nodule meets with the right arm of the cross. This cross could at some point been a crucifix, although there are no rivets indicating where a Christ figure may have been attached, there is a nodule about two thirds of the way down the cross on which the feet of the Christ figure may have sat.The cross measures 46.6 mm in length and 39.5 mm wide. It has a thickness of 3.8 mm and weighs 20.2 g.The cross is a light grey and brown in colour and has an uneven surface patina. Abrasion caused by movment whilst within the plough soil may have resulted in the loss of some of the original surface detail.Several similar lead or lead alloy crosses have been recorded on the PAS database, including: NLM-3385E0; LIN-224DC8; NLM-48A337; LIN-FF87E3; SWYOR-492174; SWYOR-0F16C6; SWYOR-764B67; NARC-530347; LEIC-D58B45; DENO-E6D125; LIN-F65087; NLM-E70F21; NLM-49D6D7; NLM-48A337; NLM-D5FBA3; ESS-83FAA1; NMS-5DEBB8;CORN-9BE806; BUC-089F06; KENT-1FEFA1; DENO-E6D125; LEIC-D58B45; LIN-6D18E4; NMS-EAB280; ESS-83FAA1; SWYOR-764B67; SWYOR-0F16C6; NLM-D5FBA3.Similar crosses were included in burials of the later medieval and early post-medieval period (Gilchrist and Sloane 2005, 92-93), therefore it is probable that this cross is of a similar date. Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) illustrate a similar example from Meols on page 152, Plate 28, No.1884, which is dated to the Medieval period. Other examples are referred to on page 158 that are more reliably datable to the late Medieval period, from a similar fishing village, Walraversijde, near Ostende in Belgium. The cross may have also functioned as a touch piece or plague cross, carried by the owner as an amulet to ward of evil.
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