- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, grey in colour and roughly rectangular in shape. The surface is smooth. Flat base with rounded edges. [ASh [OPS Move] 14/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1177 Other numbers: A 110118 158
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