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  • St Declans Stone, Ardmore Co. Waterford. Pilgrims scramble under it to cure pains in the back.
  • Holed Stone, Clock-A-Torill. Tullon. Co. Carlon. Clothes are passed through the Apertures for cures.
  • Four eagle-stone geodes. Woodcut, 1599.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing 51 stone. Etching.
  • Naturally fractured stone resembling Palaeolithic implement.
  • Engraving on stone heard of horses
  • Small stone of Statue of Aesculapius
  • Miss Rosie : weight 36 stone.
  • Scraper of stone mounted in handle
  • Miss Rosie : weight 36 stone.
  • A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.
  • Stone pathway to the summit of Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Stone knife with razor-like edge and the core made of obsidian from which it was sprung
  • Oglam stone. Co. Kerry. People walk around this stone sun wise and repeat prayers to cure falling sickness and epilepsy.
  • A Goa stone mounted on a tripod.
  • Francesco Battaglia, a stone eating boy. Engraving.
  • Cup marked stone (triangular) at Duinish, Perthshire.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • The collections of stone in the Vatican.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Magdalenian engraving on stone, showing wounded ox.
  • Men-an-tol, neolithic stone hoop, Cornwall
  • Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker in the Rhododendron area of the Himalaya. Mezzotint by W. Walker, after F. Stone, 1854.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.