- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone. Light grey on one side, dark grey on the other sides. Triangular in section. Surface has appearance of knapping. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/3/2017]
- 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 Stone, Material Quartz Stone, Material Flint Stone
- Dimensions
- Height: max 11 mm, Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1314 Other numbers: A 108142 R 37167 375
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