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Some time in the 16th Century a poor pilgrim dropped his badge within the precincts of Hythe Abbey, Winchester. It wasn’t much of a badge – just crudely fashioned from a piece of old bone. In the late 20th Century somebody excavated it from the site pictured below, and in September 2013 I first saw it in Winchester’s City Museum. Today, after extensive correspondence with one of the museum’s curators, I paid a visit to a nondescript building on the edge of an industrial estate so see and photograph a beautiful line drawing made of it when first excavated. Hopefully, that image will find its way into #journey…and so the story continues…
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