Context (Related Documents)
The contents list for the box in which this object was found stored in 2025 states that it contains a 'Collection of Fakes and Forgeries'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Contents list of box in which this object was found stored: 'small "herm" inscribed "ofte the workman and the parson lied"'.
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Analysis)
It is unclear to which period this forgery was intended to belong. In 2025, it was found stored with objects produced in the nineteenth century. This date and accordingly the 'Post Medieval' period have therefore tentatively been added to the Period field along with '?Modern' as a 'best guess'. More research is needed.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Forgery of an antique figurine, likely made from dark-grey stone, possibly slate. Carved from a rectangular block. Rounded head, with flat top and front including incised facial features and two curved incisions at back, possibly suggesting locks of hair. Constriction beneath head to suggest neck. The rest of the figure is represented only by a long rectangular pedestal base, chamfered along two edges. Almost like a herm. Roughly inscribed along the flat sides of this base: 'OFTE THE WORKMAN A/ND THE PARSON LIED'. Scratch along back.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle