- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, ex-voto in the shape of a leg, made from iron, perforated for suspension. From the chapel of St Maurus. [ACA 21/03/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Height: max 162 mm, Width: max 52 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.566 Other numbers: 1074
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet, Religious Object, Religious Offering
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