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Identification note: Missing: Woggle made from limpet shell with top knocked off. Like a limpet shell (sticking to a rock), a good Boy Scout always sticks to the task! Shalbourne Scout Troop all had woggles made from limpet shells.

Summary: 1 Scout Uniform, Shalbourne (Marlborough) Troop, once belonging to archaeologist and TV broadcaster, Phil Harding (Time Team). Uniform includes:- brown shirt with various badges, including 'archaeologist' badge; leather belt; hat with accompamying badges; green and yellow scarf, leather woggle, knife in leather sheaf; penknife on a piece of rope; garters for socks; whistle, compass; hankerchief in Band-Aid box for emergency first aid; small piece of rope with 7 knots in it (one for every day of the week - to record a good deed done every day); two red and green flags and booklet commemorating the 1966 International Jamboree at Ogborne St. George on 31st July 1966; laminated card listing The Scout Law and Scout Promise; Prayers for use in the Brotherhood of Scouts; 'Scouting for Boys' by Lord Baden-Powell; Boy Scout Enrolement Card for Philip Anthony Harding, Shalbourne Troop, 12 January 1962, age 11; photograph of Phil Harding and friend on a camping trip; numerous published boollets about the Boy Scouts. Also given, various items once belonging to Phil Harding's uncle, Kenneth J Harding, a member of Shalbourne Scout Troop, circa 1937 including green scarf and sock garters and ephemera relating to the World Scout Jamboree in Holland in 1937, held on Sunday 8th August.