Record ID: LEIC-DDAAD2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy cloth seal, c.1600-1700AD. Thickness: 3 mm, diameter: 16 mm, weight: 1.87 grams. The seal is sub-circular and incomplete and was probably a two part seal. It is decorated on one surface with a three part castle with central tower and gate with large door in front. This is flanked by turrets, each one has an enlarged arrow slit - a vertical slit with rounded terminals. Each turret has a domed roof with spherical finial and a lipped edge below. The other surface is incomplete but what is present appears to be stamped with large letters, possibly an I showing …
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-42F8AF
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval? lead alloy pilgrim badge, 20mm long 18mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 3.27g. The object is rectangular in form and cross section and depicts a bearded? figure with a possible halo of pellets or a headress around its head. The figure has its arms raised upwards by its head (in an attitude of early Christian prayer?) and is wearing a long sleeved tunic decorated with raised curved lines which run down the sleeves and converge in the middle of the body. This image has a ladder like border, with pellets in each section at its two sides. The bottom and upper edge are not c…
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-82B296
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead alloy ampulla, 33mm long, 36mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a grey patina and weighs 26.31grams. The object consists of the lower half of a bag shaped ampulla which appears to be plain on one side and on the other has a crowned W, for Walsingham.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.