An oculus can also be a hollow stone.
According to Church-Lore
Gleanings:
In some cases buried hearts have been accidentally discovered little
or no trace being left to identify them with any certainty. At
Waverley Abbey Surrey in 1731 there were found in a stone oculus two
leaden dishes soldered together containing a human heart well
preserved in pickle…
(Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer,
1892. p. 133))
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