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Description: | Incomplete medieval or post-medieval lead ampulla, lower part only, depicting on one (damaged) face a flask, usually found in combination with a downward-pointing arrow but in this case with Spencer's Type II scallop shell. The flask is the 'phial of the Holy Milk of the Blessed Mary kept on the high altar' at Walsingham (Spencer 1971, 63, 66, fig. XXII p and q). Extant length 36mm. Width 30.5mm. c.1350 - c.1539. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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