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II.—On Fossils applied as Charms or Ornaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

The summer visitor to Lyme-Regis, to Scarborough, or to Whitby, is familiar with the little Ammonites, mounted in silver as brooches for ladies, and may even have seen them also with heads carved, to represent coiled-up serpents, with gieen or pink eyes of glass, inserted by the enterprising jeweller.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1893

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References

1 I am indebted to the kindness of Mr W. Cunnington, F.G.S., for the illustration, and to his nephew, Mr. B. Howard Cunnington, of Devizes, for a copy of this paper, extracted from the “Wilts Archæological Magazine,” 1870, No. xxxv., p. 249.Google Scholar