Note from Rev. Thomas Hugo
Reference code
SAL/01/02/49/02
Title
Note from Rev. Thomas Hugo
Date
June 1856
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 item
Scope and content
Hugo exhibited 4 pilgrim signs/badges found in the riverbed of the Thames.
Mentioned in the minutes for 12 June 1856: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.042.005
Hugo later published a full account of these, and other pilgrim badges, found in the bed of the Thames during works near Blackfriars in Archaeologia, Vol. 38, Issue 1, 1860, pp.128-134: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/ix-notes-on-a-collection-of-pilgrims-signs-of-the-thirteenth-fourteenth-and-fifteenth-centuries-found-in-the-thames/AB8F75A2A5DE33A65AB44775504A5ADC
A number of pilgrim badges found in the Thames by Rev. Thomas Hugo are now in the collection of the British Museum and clearly match those represented in the drawings produced for the paper:
A crowned head to commemorate St. Edward the Confessor: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-694
There are two which could be the one described as representing Thomas Beckett: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-679; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-678
Mentioned in the minutes for 12 June 1856: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.042.005
Hugo later published a full account of these, and other pilgrim badges, found in the bed of the Thames during works near Blackfriars in Archaeologia, Vol. 38, Issue 1, 1860, pp.128-134: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/ix-notes-on-a-collection-of-pilgrims-signs-of-the-thirteenth-fourteenth-and-fifteenth-centuries-found-in-the-thames/AB8F75A2A5DE33A65AB44775504A5ADC
A number of pilgrim badges found in the Thames by Rev. Thomas Hugo are now in the collection of the British Museum and clearly match those represented in the drawings produced for the paper:
A crowned head to commemorate St. Edward the Confessor: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-694
There are two which could be the one described as representing Thomas Beckett: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-679; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-678
Creator
Hugo, Thomas (1820-1876), antiquary and print collector