Smooth, ovoid, dull reddish-brown stone
- Made:
- 1850-1920
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Smooth, ovoid, dull reddish-brown stone, witch-stone to provide amuletic protection for cattle against witches, from Rannoch, Scotland, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A152218
- Materials:
- stone
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Haggart, P.
