| Early sixteenth-century pilgrim badge made of a tin-lead alloy with a Lactation scene within an architectural setting. A nimbed Bernard kneels his hands clasped in prayer and his crozier leaning on his right shoulder before a standing crowned and nimbed Virgin and Child. Between them is a banderole which would have had the traditional 'Monstra te esse matrem' inscription. The inscription below reads SANTE-BERNAERT: The two rings on the sides indicates that it was designed to be worn on a hat or coat. Although one of a large number of pilgrim badges found at the former town of Nieuwlande which was inundated in 1530 and formed part of the flooded land of the Oosterschelde in the province of Zeeland, it almost certainly originated in the southern Netherlands or French Flanders although the exact provenance is not known.
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