930 – Incense burner
- Physical description:
- Fine small classical-style incense burner - a bowl on 3 slender supports with goat's heads at top and goat's feet at base; an owl or falcon sits below the bowl.
- Museum classification:
- Working Tools
- Size:
- 170 x 80 x 80 mm
- Information:
This incense burner was excavated from a site near the Old Rectory in St Columb Major in 1994 by Peter Rance-Matthews. We do not know its origins or how it came to be buried, but it is of a type favoured by magicians and witches. Gerald Gardner owned an identical one.
It seems they are reproductions of an Ancient Greek original.- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Bronze
This incense burner was excavated from a site near the Old Rectory in St Columb Major in 1994 by Peter Rance-Matthews. We do not know its origins or how it came to be buried, but it is of a type favoured by magicians and witches. Gerald Gardner owned an identical one.
It seems they are reproductions of an Ancient Greek original.