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Description: | Micraster is a heart-shaped sea urchin. Fossils of this type have been described as Fairy loaves, because they were shaped a bit like loaves of bread. Keeping them in the house was thought to prevent the family from going short of bread. In parts of Southern England, fossil sea urchins were thought to prevent milk going sour, and were sometimes kept in dairies for this reason. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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