- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet against sickness. Piece of granite with a natural white cross in it. [SM 18/05/2011]
- Geographical reference
- England Cornwall Penzance
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Granite Stone
- Dimensions
- Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 65 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.989 Other numbers: R 81 A 666403
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