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Pilgrim Staff and Scrip preview
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Pilgrim Staff and Scrip

The staff and scrip were practical companions of the medieval pilgrim and became instantly recognisable attributes of pilgrimage, evoking the road, endurance, dependence, and devotional purpose.

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Plain Double-disc Sign preview
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Plain Double-disc Sign

Two linked circular forms appear without an accompanying Z-rod on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness, creating the motif catalogued as the Plain Double-disc Sign. Its geometry is clear, but its original significance is not.

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Medieval · documented field

Plain Serpent preview
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Plain Serpent

Carved without an accompanying rod or geometric device, the Plain Serpent offers a striking animal form within the Pictish symbol tradition. The example on Glamis 2 in Angus survives on an eighth-century cross-slab, but its original significance is unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Portolan Wind Rose preview
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Portolan Wind Rose

Portolan charts transformed medieval seafaring knowledge into dense networks of coasts and directional lines; the later wind rose distils that navigational tradition into an emblem of orientation and guidance.

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Medieval · documented field

Red King Sign preview
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Red King Sign

A contemporary sign based on the alchemical Red King, an allegorical figure associated with conjunction, union and transformation in late medieval and early modern manuscript traditions.

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Medieval · documented field

Sacred Heart Dagger preview
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Sacred Heart Dagger

The Sacred Heart carries centuries of Christian devotion centred on divine love and suffering; the dagger belongs to a later flash vocabulary. Their modern combination makes devotion feel costly and physical: love held through pain rather than protected from it.

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Medieval · documented field

Saint Christopher Badge preview
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Saint Christopher Badge

Medieval pilgrim badges showed Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child through water, an image that made the giant saint one of the period's most recognisable patrons of travellers.

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Medieval · documented field

Salmon preview
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Salmon

A clearly recognisable salmon swims across the worn surface of the seventh-century Gairloch Symbol Stone in Wester Ross. The animal can be identified with confidence, but why it was chosen and what it meant within Pictish culture remain unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Sea Dragon Banner preview
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Sea Dragon Banner

Medieval seas were imagined as places where familiar forms could become strange and dangerous. This banner combines European dragon imagery with maritime movement to evoke strength, uncertainty and courage at the edge of the known world.

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Medieval · documented field

Seated Antlered Deer preview
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Seated Antlered Deer

A left-facing antlered deer sits rather than stands on the Glamis 1, or Hunter’s Hill, cross-slab in Angus, giving this animal carving an unusually composed posture. Its identity is recognisable, but its Pictish significance remains unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Serpent and Z-rod preview
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Serpent and Z-rod

A sinuous serpent crossed by an angular Z-shaped rod creates one of the most striking composite signs in the Pictish repertoire. Examples survive on carved stones including Brandsbutt near Inverurie, although the motif's original meaning is unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Shrine Pilgrim Badge preview
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Shrine Pilgrim Badge

Small, affordable shrine badges allowed medieval pilgrims to carry a holy place home with them, serving as wearable signs of devotion, remembrance, and a journey completed.

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Medieval · documented field

Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife preview
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Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife

Elaborate Lambayeque-Sican tumis were crescent-bladed ceremonial knives associated with ritual display, elite status, power and funerary deposition.

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Medieval · documented field

Sir Richard Yorke Merchant Mark preview
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Sir Richard Yorke Merchant Mark

Probable merchant mark associated with York civic figure Sir Richard Yorke.

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Medieval · documented field

Skull Window Emblem preview
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Skull Window Emblem

Framing the skull as a window makes mortality something to look through rather than simply look at, turning the emblem toward perspective, memory, humility, and reflection on how life is used.

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Medieval · documented field

St Clement's Sandwich Wine Merchant Mark preview
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St Clement's Sandwich Wine Merchant Mark

Unidentified merchant mark at St Clement’s, Sandwich, probably associated with the wine trade.

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Medieval · documented field

Step Sign preview
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Step Sign

Near the foot of the Monymusk Stone in Aberdeenshire is a horizontally arranged stepped form conventionally known as the Step Sign. Its modern name describes the geometry of the carving, while its original Pictish significance remains unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Sublimation Sign preview
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Sublimation Sign

A contemporary sign inspired by sublimation, the alchemical process in which material is driven upward and re-formed, interpreted here through purification, ascent and renewal.

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Medieval · documented field

Sulfur Glyph preview
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Sulfur Glyph

A contemporary rendering of the alchemical sulfur sign, drawing on historical sulfur notation while keeping material brimstone distinct from philosophical and later occult meanings.

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Medieval · documented field

Taino Zemi Cohoba Stand preview
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Taino Zemi Cohoba Stand

This Taino stone figure was likely used as a stand during cohoba ceremony; its context also requires distinguishing the carved object from zemi as spiritual and vital presence.

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Medieval · documented field

Tau Cross preview
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Tau Cross

The simple T-shaped Tau Cross became closely associated with Saint Anthony and the medieval Antonines, linking Christian devotion with care for the sick and hopes for healing and protection.

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Medieval · documented field

Transmutation Key preview
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Transmutation Key

A contemporary key-shaped emblem inspired by the historical alchemical pursuit of transmutation, using the key as a modern metaphor for change, mastery, guidance and becoming.

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Medieval · documented field

Tree of Jesse preview
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Tree of Jesse

Growing from the reclining figure of Jesse, the medieval Tree of Jesse transformed Christ's ancestry into a living tree of kings, prophets and sacred lineage.

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Medieval · documented field

Trident/Bident Princely Sign — Rurikid Rus’ preview
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Trident/Bident Princely Sign — Rurikid Rus’

Personalised bident and trident devices used by Rurikid princes on coins, seals and everyday objects.

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