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By Cygomezm - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46671891

Collar like. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'used as a form of punishment, and were attached to Church doors, Churchyard gates, or Market Cross'.

Credit: Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Painting after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark

Bust portrait of Peter Blackburn, 3/4 facing right, with right hand holding a red book. He has a white beard and moustache, and is wearing a black gown with ruff. Peter Blackburn was minister of St Nicholas, Aberdeen and later Bishop of Aberdeen,…

Woman wearing a Scold's Bridle. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Shape: flat. Decoration: (top) ring-cross (base) debased interlace. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Lost probably when nearly new. Design would contain a blessing or charm'.