Shell
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mother-of-pearl [pinctada maxima]
Measurements
160 mm (Width); 200 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335704
Summary
One half of a bivalve shell, brown, mother-of-pearl inside, scalloped edge and heavily encrusted with barnacles.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.