2467 – Animal tooth pendant

Physical description:

Pendant made from an animal tooth (canine?). Silver metal setting with suspension ring at top. Silver metal band with two lugs half way down tooth, perhaps where another part was attached.

Museum classification:

Spells & Charms

Size:

54 x 15 x 14

Information:

Animal teeth were popular charm constituents. Z46421 A_B are canine tooth pendants in the folklore collection at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA). T.Cadbury, 21/09/1011.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Tooth, metal, silver (?)

Animal teeth were popular charm constituents. Z46421 A_B are canine tooth pendants in the folklore collection at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA). T.Cadbury, 21/09/1011.