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Carter No.: 175

Handlist description: Silver trumpet embellished with gold

Card/Transcription No.: 175-3


175 a,b,c & d. (Sundry objects found with 175)

a. Red pottery stopper <> with blue decoration.

b. Some ribs of an ox

c. broken wooden label No inscription.

d. frag. of pot containing some black substance

d. Examined Consists principally of chitinous coats of small beetles with a large proportion of what is probably insect excrement, i.e. the original material has been largely eaten by insects. The small amount of what is probably the original substance left is not resin or gum. It is organic: nature not determined. Not kept.

Card no. 175-3 relating to Carter no. 175
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