- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, iron spring used for divining the place in which something has been lost.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 28 mm, Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 82 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.899 Other numbers: A 107920 R 37159 150
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