Record ID: NLM-4A8D3C
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous flask with side handles [lost, leaving a scar on one side] flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded compass-drawn flower of four petals with a fine reticulate or net-like field between the petals and around them up to the meeting of the two sides of the object. The other side bears an even finer reticulate field. The object has been neatly and obliquely cut across both its bulbous body and its neck, probably as a single operation. Ampullae would retain liquids with supposedly curative propertie…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4A7E48
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous handled flask with side handles flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded motif apparently including a compass drawn crescent within a round field, possibly with a broad letter M or W above it, and framed by closely-spaced diagonal hatching around the adjacent edge. The other side bears a compass drawn flower of seven or more petals within a circular field, with a frame around the adjacent edge in this case comprising juxtaposed triangles, each filled with diagonal hatching, and with the hatchin…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.