- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone pendant or tool; perforated for suspension
- Long description
- Amulet, black stone in the shape of a claw, perforated for suspension, glued to paper on a glass mount. [ACA 06/08/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931 Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 9 mm object, Length x Width: max 82 x 24 mm mount
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2535 Other numbers: 1823 R 15531/ 1936 263702
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