- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, an iron thatcher's nail in a glass vial stoppered with cotton wool. [RB 22/03/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Lionel Bonnemère
- 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
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 28 x 8 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.586 Other numbers: 1108 R 15385/ 1936
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