Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Shell spacer - unusual shape'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley. 
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Horace Beck and donated by his widow, Gundred Beck, in 1947. See Horace Beck’s handwritten catalogue, classified by region (WO1/1/2).  
Event Date 1947
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card for 1947.2069.1-13: 'None are dated and it is not known from what year of the excavation these objects were recovered. Mr Beck's Nos 1528-1529, 1532-1542.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2069.1-13: '15 shell beads and amulets of different shapes.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Historic description: 'Hollow inside with perforation at top and bottom of ' crescent' White; Crescent in profile; Oval in section'
Event Date 7/6/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Oval spacer bead of shell with a hole drilled at either end. Curved cross-section from the natural whorl formation.
Event Date 29/9/2022
Author: Katrina Dring