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Description: | Lead alloy badge. Cast heart-shaped plate with a series of closely spaced rounded knops projecting from around its edge. One side bears a moulded low-relief motif of five rings with either bosses or, in one case, the lowest, a more complicated figure, within. The reverse bears a casually drawn cross-hatch. The plate is pierced at the cleft in the top of the heart for suspended wear, with a trail of disrupted fabric running from this point and perhaps marking the decay of a cord or ribbon. The more complex side identifies this as a religious piece representing The Five Wounds of Christ and The Sacred Heart, emblems of Christ's Passion and His care for mankind. These were both later medieval devotions, and remained potent symbols of Catholicism up to the time of the Pilgrimage of Grace (1539-1540) which opposed the English Reformation in the North. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1540.Length: 30.3mm, Width: 27.1mm, Thickness: 1.0mm, Weight: 7.00gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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