Information for record number MWA7957:
Cast Lead Medallion from Fillongley

Summary Findspot - a lead medallion of Post Medieval date was found 600m north west of Fillongley.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Post-medieval (1540 AD - 1750 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Fillongley
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 27 87
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Found by metal detectorist in the area of Didgley Brook. The piece is discoid, and some 47mm in diameter; there is no evidence for any suspension hole. The reverse has a series of wavy lines in low relief over the whole surface and it is possible that this was intended to represent water. Equally this may have been the result of the casting process. The medallion front is of the greatest interest. The scene is undoubtedly Abraham about to slay his son Isaac upon the wood set for firing a burnt offering to God. Abraham appears to be dressed in Neo-Classical garb which suggests this work is not later than the 17th century and might possibly be late Elizabethan. Its exact purpose or relevance is obscure.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 99
Author/originator: Baddeley C J
Date: 1995
Page Number: 121-2
Volume/Sheet: 99
   
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source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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