- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; light grey stone. [ASh [OPS move] 21/08/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet, light grey almost blue stone with a flat base and a convex upper surface. Used for a pain in the heart by women only. [ASh [OPS move] 21/08/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 24 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.444 Other numbers: A 107629 R 40410 499
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