The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Pietre Ceraunie ( - )
References in Documents:Anchorites. Of affinity
with
that well described by b)
b)
1. Sect. 2.
c.
13Silex
venabuli ferreum Cuspidem exactè referens. By
c)
with that of
or four Varieties. This like those, is a perfect Flint, and
c)
2. c. 50
semiperspicuous. 'Tis likewise in the same manner, pointed
like a
Speer. Having at the other end, like those of
cardo
that 'tis pointed or spiked also backward on both sides the
Handle; with some resemblance to an
Anchor, or the Head
of a Bearded-Dart: from whence I have nam'd it. 'Tis
likewise toothed on the edges, and the sides as it were
wrought with a kind of undulated sculpture, as those before
mention'd.