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.

Record ID: SUR-47CB55
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla of medieval date, c.AD 1150 - 1350. The body of the ampulla is circular with an elongated rectangular neck extending from one edge. The remains of two attachment loops project to either side of the neck where it meets the body. The opening at the top of the neck has been pinched shut. On one side of the rounded body of the ampulla there is moulded decoration in the form of a scallop shell. This design is often asssociated with St James of Compostela or more generally as a symbol of pilgrimage. The reverse of the object is undecorated aside from traces of…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-46C113
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla, of medieval date AD 1350 - 1550. The body of the hollow ampulla is semi - circular, with short, straight, sides which would have extended up to a neck, now missing. Here the damaged edge shows the construction of the piece by revealing the hollow interior. The obverse is slightly rounded, with a reversed S centrally placed. Other decorative elements are indiscernible. The reverse is flatter and slightly hollow, with its surface covered in a series of fine lines radiating out from the broken edge, to the rounded edge, in imitation of a scallo…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
Spatial data recorded.