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AMPULLA
Unique ID: PUBLIC-214F28
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete lead pilgrim's ampulla. The ampulla is pouch-shaped with triangular suspension rings at the base of the neck. One suspension ring is intact, the other is missing.
One side of the chamber is decorated with a reversed letter S with a crown above in the centre of a checkerboard field. The S has a pellet centre and seriphed ends. Above this is a rope-patterned, horizontal band which also extends around the complete outer edge of the pouch . The other side of the pouch has a scallop-shell design with the same rope-pattern in a horizontal band above.
The pouch of the ampulla has been pierced with a triangular entry hole on the reverse and a circular exit hole on the obverse, probably made with a knife-point.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55 mm
Width: 28 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 42.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 24th August 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Skidbrooke
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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