Rock crystal amulet attached to mount by four silver bandsEurope, no dateThis may be a 17th C charms
Rock crystal amulet attached to mount by four silver bandsEurope, no dateThis may be a 17th C charmstone of the kind represented in the collections of the NMS, where round crystals are found set in silver on a chain for dipping into liquids as charms against disease, see Hugh Cheape, Charms against witchcraft in Goodare and Martin and Miller, Witchcraft and belief in early modern Scotland, , p. 242.Such crystal balls were often found in Northern European burials of the early Middle Ages (especially Germanic, Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon). See A. L. Meaney, ‘Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones’, British Arachaeological Reports, 96, 1981, pp 82-85. Meaney suggests these balls were frequently complemented with a sieve-spoon and were mostly found in female burials.From the British Museum -- source link
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