Chapter SixDuring the following day, Mark received word from the British Museum concerning the pendant. Confirming that it was early medieval, made around eleven hundred and fifty, the Museum also reported that residues of belladonna and arsenic clung to the surface. Not enough to kill an adult, but certainly enough to cause someone, like a child, or a dog, extreme problems.
“Belladonna?” Jenny sat in Mark's office as he read the report from his computer screen.
“That's what they say. It doesn't say how much they found, but I suppose any amount could be dangerous.”
“Belladonna has been used for centuries,” said Donna from behind a piled up stack of paper on her desk. She'd been working on some finds discovered recently down near Parkgate, to do with smuggling from the early nineteenth c
