A Viking Age amulet fashioned out of fossilised sea urchin and bronze from Lindholm in Denmark. Similar amulets were often hung in houses where they were believed to avert lightning and protect the home from evil.

Fred Gettings, Secret Symbolism in Occult Art

More organised delight from the catalogue here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pages-from-an-illustrated-catalogue-of-period-ornaments-ca-1919

Five Mummers, 1338-44 MS Bodl. 264.

source

Pola X (1999), dir. Leos Carax

Nu au masque

seeds i collected at lunch today; need to use the big microscope and herbarium at work to id a few of these

lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce), articum spp (burdock), & medicago lupulina (black medic)

by Calcedonio Blu