14th-15th century AD. A lead-alloy disc with lateral loops, low-relief image depicting the apocryphal story of pilgrims who venerated a bloody host; the host was alleged to have been tortured by local Jews, who supposedly pierced it with knives; after it started to bleed, the host was wrapped in a piece of cloth and hidden in a glass beaker under the floor of the synagogue; later the host was unearthed from the ground by a Christian priest; all of the objects from the story are pictured on the badge.Soon to be published in an academic paper on pilgrim badges by Dr. Jörg Ansorge, in the Journal of the Archaeological Society of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Archäologische Berichte aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern], fig.10, item g, where nine known examples are recorded, this example being one of the best condition examples known; accompanied by a copy of the proposed plate/fig. 3.75 grams, 38mm (1 1/2"). Property of an East Anglian gentleman; previously in a private collection formed prior to 2000; originally from Güstrow, a town in Mecklenburg, a pilgrim site from 1330 AD until the Reformation.