Amuletic loadstone with scalloped metal mounts
- Made:
- 1551-1700
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Small loadstone with scalloped metal mounts, bound with string, with ring for suspending, amuletic, English, 1551-1700
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A212079
- Materials:
- fibre, string, iron and wax
- Measurements:
-
loadstone: 35 mm x 16 mm x 13 mm, .014 kg
string: 105 mm
- type:
- lodestone
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
