Stone is the term we use for the overarching category of minerals and rocks.  Stones are hard substances that come from the ground and is used in many different objects, from building to small stones in jewelry.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9753 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis & gold For order see Field Notes.
8592 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis and carnelian balls Strung two of each alternately
9596 (none) (none) B16951 Beads Small lapis ball beads & carnelian ring beads strung alternately: in the middle a carnelian double conoid.
9683 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis diamonds and silver-plate beads Found by the pin 9682 and probably used to fasten to it the cylinder seal 9681
8647 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis lentoids, and one or two carnelian rings.
9954 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3
8044 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small rings of green glazed frit, A few lapis beads One carnelian One shell
9165A (none) (none) (none) Beads Small string of lapis and carnelian, mixed types.
10007 (none) (none) (none) Beads Triangles of 11 gold and 11 lapis
9782 (none) 1928,1010.181 (none) Beads Two large lapis lentoids One gold lentoid 1 lapis bugle
9327 (none) (none) B16801 Beads Very small gold beds, small lapis, and silver disks: also, one long bugle of bloodstone. For order see Field Notes.
9280 (none) (none) (none) Beads Very small lapis and gold balls
8602 (none) (none) (none) Beads Very small lapis balls
10172 (none) 1935,0113.435 (none) Beads Worn round wrist 5 lapis double conoids; 4 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian double conoid; lapis and carnelian strung alternatively.
8527 (none) (none) (none) Beads 16 gold spacer triangles formed of 2 minute beads with between them minute ring beads of lapis lazuli and carnelian [drawing] 1:1
8659 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small balls of carnelian and gold Strung alternately 10 of each
8904 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis and carnelian with lapis phallic amulet. [drawing 1:1]
9144 (none) (none) (none) Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
18113A (none) (none) (none) Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
9153 (none) (none) (none) Beads & Seal 1 very long carnelian bugle, i ditto. green jasper, 2 crystal rings and 2 gold balls: on the end a silver button seal with engraved face: subject not decipherable. [drawing]
1642 (none) (none) (none) Beads (10) Carnelian, agate, etc., found together.
16318 (none) 1931,1010.227 (none) Beads (6): 5 carnelian; one double pyramidal, two ball, one barrel, one blue glazed ball.
696 (none) (none) (none) Beads (re-strung) Large beads of mixed irregular shapes in carnelian, agate, lapis, malachite, pebble, granite, etc. very ugly, 28 in all.
19577 (none) (none) (none) Beads 3 very long shell tubes, shell cylinders, small shells pierced, large black hematite barrels, carnelian rings.
17646 (none) (none) (none) Beads about 70 of rock crystal, agate, carnelian, steatite and granite (?). With them, an object in white limestone a disk (badly chipped) pierced in the center, flat and with slight mushroom stem and a second hole in the flat part. [drawing 1:1]

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