- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Glass astragalus or knucklebone. [SM (Verve) 17/5/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland Collection
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1937 Found unentered: 04/09/2003
- Dimensions
- Width: max 9 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1937.56.87
Search terms: Toy and Game, Religion, Gaming Piece, Amulet
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