Over the course of the research project the Post-Doctoral researcher attached to the team, Dr Lucy O'Connor, specialised in pilgrimage to the Jerusalem and the Holy Land. She concentrated particularly on eulogiae or 'blessings', the souvenirs that pilgrims collected to bless themselves and their loved ones from the holy places that they had visited.

According to the wealth of the pilgrim these eulogiae were made of a variety of media from clay and cheaper metals such as lead, through to rarer commodities such as silver. They most commonly took the form of tokens imprinted with a stock image of a saint, Christ or the Virgin, or of ampullae which were small flasks intended to hold holy water or oil for anointment.These objects have been found in many locations around the Near East, but also much wider afield demonstrating that pilgrims carried these precious items back to their homes and loved ones at the completion of a successful pilgrimage.

Lucy and staff from the University of Exeter's Digital Humanities Laboratory obtained permission from the British Museum to try and scan tokens belonging to the museum in an attempt to bring them to life as three dimensional objects that bore traces of their manufacture by having thumb prints (for example) imprinted into the clay. Although they are still experimenting to see the best way to produce models of these artefacts, a number were photographically documented as part of this study and are made available on this website for anybody interested in the study of these fascinating early souvenirs.