- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; narrow bar of slate with irregular hatching.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Slate Stone, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 2 mm, Width: max 7 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1507 Other numbers: A 70480 R 30166 ? 68
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