Detail of a locket containing a lock of hair from Thomas Beaufort, a fifteenth-century Duke of Exeter, from Bury St Edmund Abbey, photographed at Moyse's Hall Museum

Date:
24 Jan 2023
Location:
Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk
Reference:
DP393277
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Photographer's note: 'Lock of hair of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter who died c.1426 and was buried at Bury St Edmunds. Workmen discovered his grave in 1772 which is presumably when this locket bearing his coat of arms was made to contain a piece of his hair.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/31357 Objects from Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; within the Volume: VF000185 English Heritage/Historic England Collections and Object Photography; within the Series: HEC01/024 English Heritage/Historic England Collections; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Payne, Patricia: Historic England

Keywords

Museum