Amuletic quartz pebble
- Made:
- 1900-1936
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Amuletic quartz pebble, furrowed and grooved like warts, used to rub on warts to cure them, South Devon, English, 1900-1936
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A666077
- Materials:
- quartz, ? material
- Measurements:
-
length 36 mm
width 25 mm
thickness 18 mm
- type:
- therapeutic amulets
