- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, piece of slate, roughly triangular in shape. It is notched at the edges and with incised lines on both sides. For a man who is tired after work. [CW [OPS Move] 08/03/2017]
- 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 Slate Stone, Process Notched, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 1 mm, Width: max 13 mm, Length: max 36 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.902 Other numbers: A 107872 R 36973 99
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