Record ID: DOR-550053
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead medieval pilgrim's badge of St Anne, dating to c.1400-1500. Probably from her shrine at Buxton, Derbyshire, but relics of St Anne were also claimed by Canterbury, Reading and Durham, and so it may alternatively have been produced at one of these places. The badge depicts St Anne teaching her daughter, the Virgin Mary, to read. St Anne and the Virgin Mary are both depicted wearing long dresses or robes. St Anne is wearing a veil or headdress. The Virgin Mary is depicted as being slightly smaller than St Anne. On the reverse is a bent, long and tapering integral attac…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-D49DE2
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy pilgrim badge. The moulded decoration depicts the figure of St Barbara standing next to a tower, holding scrolls and a palm frond. The front face is convex. The rear is flat and undecorated. There is a stub of a single integral attachment spike on the rear face. Date: Late Medieval to early Post Medieval - c. 1450 - 1540 Dimensions: 41.52 mm x 19.46 mm x 3.75 mm Weight: 8.43 g This example is most similar to database record SOMDOR-FF50A2 from Piddlehinton in Dorset and may even be from the same mould. There are several other variants of this brooch recorded …
Created on: Saturday 17th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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.

Record ID: DOR-D2A340
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pilgrim badge. The openwork badge depicts a horse and rider in low relief. The rider is in armour and holding a lance. Below the horse is and indistinct element into which the end of the lance is pressed. The back of the badge is undecorated and retains part of an integral copper alloy pin for attachment. It is likely that this is a badge depicting St George slaying the dragon. This was a popular emblem in the late medieval period as his cult developed under Royal patronage. There are similar badges illustrated in Spencer, B 1998, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, …
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St. Martin', grid reference and parish protected.