M0005997: St. Keyne's Well, Cornwall, Rocking Stones, Pontypridd and Fontaine de Saint Servez, Breton

Previous title, replaced August 2020: St. Keynes Well. Looe

Three photographs. The first is a postcard photograph of the exterior showing the carved stone entrance of the holy well of St Keyne produced by Great Western Railway in 1937. It was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1938 (accession number PHO 11186). The second is a photograph from an unknown source of a glacial boulder known as "Y Maen Chwyf" in Welsh. The third photograph is of Fontaine de Saint Servez, reputed to cure disease in animals. The photograph was taken by A. D. Lacaille in August 1928 and accessioned by the Museum in 1939 (accession number PHO 11185)

12 January 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 25.3 x 30.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for two of the items: acc. number PHO 11185 and 11186

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.