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Some time in the 16th Century a poor pilgrim dropped his badge within the precincts of Hyde 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. Click on the audio segment below to hear me tell the tale live on location.

Hopefully, that image will find its way into #journey…and so the story continues…