- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Bead, made from blue coloured glass. Oval in shape with a longitudinal piercing. [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
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 10 mm, Length: max 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3412 Other numbers: 271
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