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AMPULLA
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Wil Partridge, 2020-01-08 16:18:05
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AMPULLA
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An incomplete, medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla, dating to c. AD 1350-1530. The flask-shaped ampulla has a rounded bowl that tapers where it meets the neck. The neck of the ampulla is incomplete but appears to have flared. Both faces of the bowl are decorated in relief, the obverse with a simplified shell design, the reverse depicting a cross on a step or pedastal.

Dimensions: length 22.95mm; width 14.97mm (bowl); 6.21mm thick; 49.35g in weight.

Although in use from the late 12th century, the majority of the robust ampulla to survive in England are those of the later Medieval period, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1530 (Spencer 1990: 58). Ampulla were designed to contain a draught of relic water, to be taken as cures or worn by suspension through the loops as a talisman (Spencer 1998: 203), whilst Anderson (2010) has suggested that their distribution suggests diliberate deposition on agricultural land. A preliminary search has not identified any further ampullae with this style of cross.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 1350 and 1530
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 974504
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1087252
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1087252/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 3 December 2020)
Object location51° 12′ 19.8″ N, 1° 39′ 39.06″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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