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Title: pilgrims ampulla Post by: Radnor Bandit (Ian) on May 23, 2009, 07:59:53 PM Can anyone tell me which shrine this may be from and approx date. Found today and well chuffed 1st one a have ever found. The emblem is a simple cross with internal hatching within a shield.
Thank you Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: hedgehog on May 23, 2009, 08:05:57 PM Well done bandit, could be a local one here is a link to a similar one in Shropshire
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=3387&cat=all (http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=3387&cat=all) Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: Radnor Bandit (Ian) on May 23, 2009, 08:09:31 PM Cheers hedgehog,
very similar to the one in the link but mine is much plainer. thank you Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: hedgehog on May 23, 2009, 08:30:31 PM Plainer or not it's a lovely find. Does make me wonder how local it may have been, the idea initially was that you did a pilgrimage , maybe to a far away place and brought back the holy water to basically change your bad luck whatever it may have been. As Walt will tell you there was a holy well as close as Kinnersley and a thriving community sprang up around it only to disappear over time. Haven't looked but I think there is still a working example in Luston, would have saved a lot of foot slogging to get your holy water and quite a lucrative enterprise for the communities that were around them.
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: DIGGA on May 23, 2009, 09:44:24 PM lovely find there bandit
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: The Doc on May 23, 2009, 11:00:10 PM Very nice find. I don't think it can be linked to a particular shrine. Date is 15th century.
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: waltonbasinman on May 24, 2009, 06:11:29 AM Nice find that Bandit. Living in the Radnor area myself was it found near here or a distance away as I try and keep a track of finds in the area to build up a picture. If it is local it is the first I have seen and am not aware of any Holy Wells immediately adjacent to Radnor.
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: Radnor Bandit (Ian) on May 24, 2009, 08:58:07 AM Thank you for the replys, I think a trip to Ludlow is in order and Paul ,Yes it was found very local to us. As for Radnor Holywells at some point in the past due to the importance of water, almost any all year round spring may well have been clasified as a holywell.(the drickle above me has a referenece to being one) and close to you above Dunfield is a marked one on OS.
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: the sutt on May 24, 2009, 08:34:24 PM very nice bandit. i got one, but not as good as the one you found, well done.
Title: Re: pilgrims ampulla Post by: ROMAN STEVE on May 25, 2009, 09:01:56 PM cracking ampulla still waiting to find
one myself you are very lucky |