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PILGRIM BADGE
Unique ID: NMS-563F40
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete Post Medieval pilgrim badge, broken, cracked and distorted, openwork, upper part missing, comprising the figure of the Virgin Mary kneeling and praying between the foot of the cross to her left and the column at which Christ was scourged to her right. Most of the cross with the crucified Christ is missing. Cast and engraved details depict a scull and long bone lying against the grassy mound into which the base of the cross is set. The figure of Mary is nimbed, hooded and robed. The upper part of the Solomonic column is missing. The narrow base has counter-relief foliate decoration with one end concave and the other broken just beyond the mound (also partly broken). There is a flattened spike for attachment on the reverse of the figure. >39 x 29mm. 16th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 29 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st April 2006 - Wednesday 31st May 2006
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 44622
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Upwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5002
Four figure Latitude: 52.595098
Four figure longitude: 0.213109
1:25K map: TF5002
1:10K map: TF50SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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