Flint

Flint Silex, Lapis TiliceusNaturally perforated Flint is called Holy Stone, Hag Stone, Witches Stone, Silex Pertusus (‘perforated Flint’) Ortus Sanitatis, Beck, 1517 Varieties of Flint fromAldrovani, Musaeum Metallicum, 1648 Varieties of FlintBritish Mineralogy, Sowerby, 1811 Silex pertusus, Naturally Perforated Flint, ‘Hag Stone‘Conradi Gesneri de Rerum Fossilium Lapidum et Gemmarum, 1565 Flint stonesPhoto by Anton Mineralogical…