- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Votive offering of thin silver plate, in the shape of a finger, tied with blue ribbon. [El.B 06/11/2008]
- Person
- Field collector Frederick Thomas Elworthy
- PRM source Somerset Archaeological Society
- PRM source Somerset County Museum, Taunton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1905
- Date collected
- circa 1890 - 1905
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 07/1968
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Material Ribbon Textile, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 69 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1968.13.270
- Research and responses
Relevant publications: The Evil Eye, an Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, London. John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1895. Horns of Honour and Other Studies in the By-ways of Archaeology, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1900. [GI 30/4/2001]
1968.13.270
Votive offering of thin silver plate, in the shape of a finger, tied with blue ribbon. [El.B 06/11/2008]
1968.13.270
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