- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze miniature axe
- Long description
- Amulet, model Roman axe, incised with an asterisk-style star on one side, ?cast in metal. [ACA 10/08/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931 Archaeological period: Roman, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 47 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2564
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