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)
10026 (none) (none) (none) Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion)
10027 (none) (none) (none) Gold Leaves (14) Strung with small beads of lapis and carnelian. The order is the normal one: some were found with the beads still in between - 1 small carnelian ring, 2 blue bugles, 1 small carnelian ring. (many of the beads are mixed with U.10026)
10028 (none) (none) (none) Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found.
10051A (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10051B (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10051C (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10060 (none) (none) (none) Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell-shaped [drawing] (broken) Type 50 (new)
10061 (none) (none) (none) Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell shaped Type__
10062 (none) (none) (none) Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell shaped Type 17.5.P7
10063 (none) (none) B17153 Steatite bowl Dark greenish grey Bell-shaped All the top badly broken but complete Type__
10065 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [struck out: illegible] [drawing] Type 92(new)
10066 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [drawing] Type 60 (new)
10067 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [drawing] Type__
10068 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [drawing] Type__
10069 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [drawing] Type 85
10070 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White Calcite [drawing] All the rim broken away, but pieces complete Type 87
10071 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite In very bad condition: top gone, sides all decayed [drawing] Type 85(new)
10072 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite In very bad condition; top missing; the surface much decayed Pair to U 10071 Type__
10073 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite Surface much decayed [drawing] Type [erased: "79"]
10074 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite Top all broken [drawing] Type 85(new)
10075 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite (Top all broken) [drawing] Type 91 (new)
10077 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite Spill Vase Upper part much decayed and half of it gone to powder, Companion piece to U.10076 Type__
10078 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone (?) Sausage-shaped: made of a coralline limestone (?) Dark bluish grey with white annumitic markings
10079 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone Dark grey stone Roughly square: suspended by a copper ring (broken & missing) which went through a hole pierced from the two edges across a corner [drawing]
10089 (none) (none) (none) Beads Double lentoids of lapis and gold See Field Notes

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