Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2005-04-20 14:51:15
Title
Papal bull
Description
English: An incomplete papal lead bulla only roughly a third of which now survives. It is roughly circular in shape and worn, now measuring 25.2mm in diameter and 4.5mm in thickness. The obverse reads [N]ICO/[L]AVS/[PP]III, with the first letters of each line of the inscription missing due to the incompleteness of the bulla. On the reverse there is the head of St Peter, within a compartment defined by beading, which would have originally have been facing the head of St Paul with a cross pattee with long foot in between the two.
It is most likely to be of Pope Nicholas III, 1277-1280; a complete example is illustrated in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval catalogue (Egan, 2001, 87, 89, no 3).
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Suffolk
Date
between 1277 and 1280
date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1277-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1280-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 93014 Old ref: SF-BB0514 Filename: WKSSF-BB0514.JPG
Credit line
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
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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