- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone. Brown and black in colour. Rounded in shape, with a protruding bulbous nodule. The surface is smooth. [EH [OPS Move] 13/3/2017]
- 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
- Diameter: max 16 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1142 Other numbers: A 110295 335
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