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Plate IBritain & Irelandhag stone
No. 20 · Special edition

The hag stone

also called the adder stone

A pebble with a natural hole through it, nailed to cottage doors and hung in stables and over beds in England.

Earliest record
Dorset hag stone, acquired by the Pitt Rivers Museum 1880–81 (1884.56.3)
Source
Pitt Rivers Museum; Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
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Found on a nail at a cottage door

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford holds a hag stone “found fixed on a nail to the cottage-door” in Dorset, acquired in 1880–81 (1884.56.3). The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic holds a string of hag stones from Bridestowe, Devon (object 269).

Source
Pitt Rivers Museum, Dorset hag stone
england.prm.ox.ac.uk ↗
II · FolkDoors, stables, bedheadsWhat people did with it›III · ModernCast from a real pebbleWishlore, today›
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From the first pencil line to the piece we make today. Narrated in English, with subtitles.

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Three tiers. One symbol.

Every tier keeps the symbol whole and true to its source.

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Sterling Hag stone
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I · Sterling

Silver stone

925 sterling cast from a sea-worn pebble, satin finish. One natural hole; the chain runs through it.

£28Sample price · single pendant
Gilded Hag stone
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II · Gilded

Gilded

Gold-plated 925 sterling silver (vermeil) — high-polish pebble with one natural hole. No stones: the shape has no point for one.

£85Sample price
Atelier Hag stone
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III · Atelier

Fully handmade

Hand-hammered gold-plated 925 sterling silver pebble with one natural hole and no stones. Shown on the bench with the stone it was modelled on. Made to order.

£185Sample price · made to order