- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, red/brown in colour with deep pits to the surface. Roughly trapezoid in shape, with a grey deposit in the surface. [ASh [OPS move] 04/01/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3402 Other numbers: 260
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