Record ID: NLM-6608F1
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt pilgrim badge. A circular plate bearing the framed image of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin crowned and with sceptre and the Child haloed, viewed against a cross-hatched ground within a cabled inner border, a gutter, and an outer frame which is externally lined. A probably integrally cast D-section bar passes behind the image and across its flat plain back and is broken at the site of a sharp curve. Gilded overall, chipped. The finder kindly offers the suggestion that the object was a pendant, but the image is designed to be viewed when the bar is horizontal. This feature …
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-9FC8FA
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver late medieval to post medieval pilgrim's badge dating to AD 1400- 1550. The badge is scallop shaped, and contains a piece of jet in the centre. The jet has been carved to be in the shape of a scallop shell. The silver overlaps the jet to hold it within the badge. The silver projects out as a lip all the way round the badge, and has been crimped. On the reverse is the remains of the badge attachment. There is a raised bar running from the top to the bottom of the shell, in the centre the remains of the worn and broken attachment. There is no decoration on the reverse, …
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BA2B3C
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver pendant, in the form of a fingerless mitten or glove, probably representing the glove of the martyred Archbishop Thomas Becket. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1400. Height: 12.7mm, Length: 27.6mm, Thickness: 0.3mm, Weight: 0.91gms
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6EB2F9
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver pilgrim badge, now bent and cracked, showing a figure and a dragon. The fragment is cast in one piece with a flat reverse and relief-decorated front. It is L-shaped, with part of a horizontal base which the vertical figure stands on the left-hand end of. The surviving part of the base is decorated with a dragon's head in profile looking towards the figure, with a long pointed ear, rounded brow, and an open mouth from which a tongue protrudes. Beneath the head is a pair of short forelegs bent forwards. In front of the dragon, an…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-BCB085
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt square-diamond shaped pilgrim badge made from silver foil. Decoration shows a standing king wearing heavy robes, a crown ornamented with three large spearheads and pellet jewels in between. In his left hand he holds the orb surmounted by a cross with pellet terminals (globus cruciger) and in his right is the Sovereign's Sceptre with a trifurcated terminal.  The face of the king has a large bulbous nose flanked by pellet eyes and medium length hair. To the left of the figure is a black letter H. In the right field is a flower or rose formed from a central pellet s…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: BM-9E8089
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver gilt pilgrim badge. This object has a flat reverse and moulded, domed front. James Robinson comments that it depicts St George on horseback advancing right. The saint’s arm appears to be raised; he probably originally wielded a sword or lance. The horse stands on the recumbent figure of the dragon. The stitching loop is missing from the reverse. This would have been used to attach the item to a hat or other garment. The gilt is mostly worn off to front and back. A similar style badge, though portraying a standing saint, can be seen in The Treasure Annual Report…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Takeley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47846D
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Well-preserved gilded silver openwork pilgrim badge depicting St Margaret and the dragon. The saint is wearing a flat-topped crown, below which her hair frames her face; the face has no detail except for a nose. She wears a vertically ribbed garment and holds a book in her left hand and a cross in her right (so the book is on the viewer's right and the cross is on the viewer's left). The book appears to have a clasp on one edge. The cross's shaft is thrust into the open mouth of the dragon, whose belly-up body curves round below to form the edge of the badge; M…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-1239F8
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval silver pilgrim badge, possibly of St George slaying a dragon, dating to c. AD 1400 - 1550. The small fragment is circular with projections, it is D-shaped in section. It is comprised of two circular fragments, one inside the other, the outer ring has a projection at the base. Th inner circle appears zoomorphic, with two faces meeting in the centre. The outer ring is undecorated, the lower projection also appears to terminate in a zoomorphic head with a small snout extending. Length: 7.99 mm Width: 9.56 mm Thickness: 1.91 mm Weight: 0.38 g Discussion: …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-82DF40
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small and incomplete gilded silver medieval pilgrim badge, with the openwork design of St George on foot, and the dragon. It has lost its upper half, and now consists only of the dragon and two legs of St George from the knees downwards. The surviving part, including both breaks, is very worn, with gilding surviving only in the recesses. The dragon is shown in profile, and its curved back and neck forms the base of the pendant. The head is to the viewer's right and the tail to the left. The head has a square snout which is now not joined to any other part of the badg…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-690CAD
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded silver figure depicting St Barbara, possibly once part of a pendant but repurposed as a badge. The object is anthropomorphic, and cast in the shape of a female figure. She wears a long floor length robe which is draped over her left shoulder, exposing a square neckline above a front fastening gown. She also wears a triangular fillet which is emphasised by three horizontal lines which may be intended to represent decoration or less likely corsetry. She holds a long object, likely a palm branch, in her left hand, and her right arm encircles a long tower which is…
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stockland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-8CF154
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2019 T1200. Description: An incomplete silver-gilt pilgrim badge of medieval date, c.AD 1350 - 1650. The object depicts a bearded male, probably a saint, issuing from a scalloped border at the waist. The head is ovate with moulded facial features and a hat or cap above the brow. The main body is also ovate and the figure appears togate with a shoulder strap that crosses his torso diagonally. A staff in held in his left hand. On the reverse of the main body are the remains of a silver attachment plate that would have fixed the figure to a leather strap or similar. D…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8A7464
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of small gilded silver medieval or early post-medieval pilgrim's badge, cast in one piece. The design is openwork and in relief, and depicts St George on horseback in profile right, spearing the dragon. The hindquarters of the horse survive, with St George's right leg and slightly drooping foot. The saddle-cloth is also visible under St George's leg. The horse's neck and head are missing (fresh break) as is George's body from the waist up. His missing arm clearly held a lance, which runs diagonally across the fragment. The lance…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A66556
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gilded silver late medieval to early post-medieval pilgrim badge or mount. The outer face of the object is moulded to form a central seated female figure wearing a headdress with an infant on her left knee and an older crowned female child standing to her right side, arm stretched in front of the central figure holding something. The reverse of the object is flat and a small, circular wire loop has been soldered to its centre. This loop has now been squashed flat. Gilding covered the outer face and the outer edges of the reverse, but has worn away in places. …
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kedington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F8E7D1
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver gilt badge of Medieval date. This incomplete artefact weighs 3.20g, has a width of 17.1mm, incomplete height of 14.8mm and thickness of 2.7mm, which increases to 4.7mm over the, now bent over, attachment loop or pin lug that is present on the reverse surface. This uncertain feature on the reverse has an oval shape measuring 8.6mm x 5.7mm and seems to have been formed of a loop of wire, probably with a rectangular or sub-rectangular cross-section. The inner aperture of this loop measures 3.8mm x 1.5mm. The fact that it lays close to the reverse surface and the cent…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-79A2BB
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A silver gilt mount of medieval date, probably a finger-ring bezel. It consists of a heart with branches rising form the centre of the top, these branches curve down to each side of the heart ending in a four petalled flower. The reverse seems to show a curved band that it was attached to. Dimensions: Length: 14.16mm, width: 11.25mm, thickness: 4.93mm, weight: 2.57g Discussion: Mounts of hearts between flowers appear on a number of rings, although these are more commonly topped with a crown. See for example: SOM-F8C1ED, YORYM-F5EF51, SUSS-167233, and AF.…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DBDDFA
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2016 T143: Disclaimed returned to finder Description: An incomplete anthropomorphic gilded silver pilgrim badge. It is in the form of a standing male figure facing and may depict St James. He is depicted wearing a broad-brimmed hat and holding a long staff in his left hand. His right arm is folded across the front and his right hand clasps the front of his robes, or possibly the strap of a bag. The reverse of the object is roughly finished with a series of parallel diagonal grooves. A rectangular integrally cast shank projects from the centre of the reverse and expa…
Created on: Wednesday 24th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D9F03F
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver-gilt badge depicting St. George on horseback, galloping right. The badge, which is of openwork design, has well-moulded details on its upper surface, and a flat reverse. The horse is largely complete, the one exception being at the front end, where only the tops of the forearms survive. Tarnishing of these breaks indicates that the damage occurred in antiquity. The horse's hindquarters are bent in a way that suggests rapid forward motion; this impression is further enhanced by the position of the tail, which curves upwards. An uneven surface on the base of the …
Created on: Monday 8th September 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton-under-Wychwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-482427
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver gilt pilgrim's badge commemorating St George, dating from the late fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The badge depicts St George wearing fifteenth century style armour (Robinson, 2011) on horseback with a curving sword in his right hand raised above his head. The horse is advancing right with front legs raised. The dragon lies defeated at the feet of the horse. On the reverse is a circular loop for attachment to clothing. The badge is in good condition; most of the gilding remains intact on the surface and finer details such as St George's armour and the ho…
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-53A6F1
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Pendant in the form of a gauntlet or glove made from sheet silver. Details added with incised lines, three double lines marking the fingers which are not separated. The finger joints are represented by pairs of transverse lines. Thumb separated, with the joints also show by transverse lines. Areas at the base of the thumb, and opposite to it, are marked with crossing incised lines. Cuff expanded and plain. Away from the fingers is an incised line running parallel to the edges and separated from the edges by a line of rocked tracer decoration. Next to the thumb is an integral ring whic…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Ferriby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9BC000
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver-gilt badge, possibly a pilgrim's badge, depicting St George slaying the dragon. The openwork badge depicts a horse and rider in low relief. The rider is in armour and holding a lance. Below the horse is a dragon into which the end of the lance is pressed. The back of the badge is undecorated and has a patch of solder where a loop was attached (the loop was recovered with the brooch but had become detached).   Dimensions: 28.18 mm x 20.29 mm x 2.66 mm Weight: 4.52 g Date: Late Medieval - 15th to early 16th century Discussion: St George became popular from…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.