- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; Piece of slate, grey in colour, square and flat in shape, perforated in the centre. [AF [OPS Move] 9/3/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Slate Stone, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.637 Other numbers: A 107706 R 38708 577
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