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Pictured is a nine inch cow horn with a washed leather strap. This is a replica of a cow horn used in medieval England to feed infants. The solid end of the horn was canalised and covered with a piece of either rough cloth, skin or thin lead to act as a teat.

This horn is on display with many other feeding bottles in the George Marshall Medical Museum’s Nursing and Midwifery case.