pilgrim badge
- Museum number
- 1997,0217.1
- Description
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A late medieval lead-tin pilgrim badge, depicting the miracle of the Holy Cross of Kranenburg. The badge carries the inscription: [DIT.I]S DAT. TECEN. VAN. KRANEN[BORCH]; incomplete.
- Production date
- 15thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 - 33 millimetres
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Width: 45 - 50 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The pilgrim badge represents the Miracle of the Holy Cross of Kranenburg. This is said to have occured when a young shepherd boy who was unable to swallow the Holy Host, hid it in a tree, from which a crucifix later appeared.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Miracle of the Holy Cross of Kranenburg 1284 (?)
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- Found in Aveley, Essex, on a dump of landfill, said to have come from the Thames foreshore in London in 1992.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1997,0217.1
