- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, stone. Dark grey in colour, roughly oval in shape with one flatter edge. [AF [OPS Move] 06/12/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 31 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3097 Other numbers: 381
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