Medieval 'Thames' St Werburg's Geese Pilgrim's Badge 15th century A.D. A lead-alloy pilgrim's badge of geese paradoxically ‘confined’ in a roofless wattle enclosure from which miraculously they do not fly out, depicting the most famous miracle of St Werburg. See Spencer, B., Pilgrim Souvenirs and secular badges [Salibury Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 2], Salisbury, 1990, figs.168-9; Jones, M., The Secret Middle Ages, 2002, p.21, fig. 2.3. 3.6 grams, 37 mm (13.7 grams total, 62 x 44 mm including case) (1 1/2 in. (2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)). Found Thames foreshore spoil, London, UK, 1980s. St Werburg was the daughter of king Wulfhere of Mercia (died 675 AD) and St Erminilda; she was a nun who founded nunneries at Hanbury, Staffordshire and Weedon, Northamptonshire; her body was transferred to Chester, of which city she is patron saint and fragments of her shrine there survive to the present day. [No Reserve]