- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, eight fragments of star-shaped fossilised Pentacrinite stems, in a glass vial, stoppered with cotton wool. [ACA 02/08/2012]
- Long description
- Max L [.1] = 33 mm Max W [.1] = 8 mm Max L [.2] = 26 mm Max W [.2] = 8 mm Max L [.3] = 25 mm Max W [.3] = 9 mm Max L [.4] = 24 mm Max W [.4] = 10 mm Max L [.5] = 20 mm Max W [.5] = 8 mm Max L [.6] = 13 mm Max W [.6] = 12 mm Max L [.7] = 11 mm Max W [.7] = 4 mm Max L [8.] = 14 mm Max W [.8] = 2 mm
- 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 Fossil
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 17 mm glass vial, Length: max 150 mm glass vial
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2489 Other numbers: 5104 R 14851/ 1936
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