- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, beige/cream in colour. One edge of the stone is flat, whereas the other end is rounded. Pitting visible on the surface. [ASh [OPS move] 10/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1058 Other numbers: A 110261 301
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