The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mottled Jasper [ARK00382]
Attached People: Collector (major) - Bargrave, John (1610-1680)Location(s): Current location at - Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives (Library and/or Archive) -> Canterbury Cathedral (Institution)
Annotation:[Canterbury Catalog: A piece of mottled Jasper in shape of a convex oval. A variety of quartz; a dense, opaque, microcrystalline variety of quartz, usually red, brown or yellow and coloured by oxides of iron. It is used as a decorative stone. The term is also used for other silicified rocks or decorative stones.] (approx 1st -10th cent AD)