- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; white/blue powdered stone with some large lumps still present. Referred to as "zirr wrad" or rosebuds. Used for the stomach by women only. [ASh [OPS move] 13/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 4 mm largest piece, Width: max 8 mm largest piece, Length: max 12 mm largest piece
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1828 Other numbers: A 108556 R 37281
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