protective charm

Brown striped 'witch stone', oval in shape, with sticky-tape mark on one side.
label: [old Horniman display - black card with white writing] Stone carried by a / farm-hard to protect / him from a reputed witch / (Ann Izzard of St Neots, / died about 1855) / Eynesbury Hunts / 6.237
Note: [Ann Izzard died in 1838]

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
6.237
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 92 g; overall: 86 x 33 x 18 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
stone
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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