This group of rocks are formed by the accumulation and cementation of fragments of earlier rocks, minerals, and organisms in water.

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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)
17923 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17934A (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Flints. Miniature cutting and piercing tools. [drawing 1:1]
17936G (none) 1935,0113.783 (none) [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
17937B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Celts. Flint. Waisted for hafting. [drawing 1:1]
17938A 32-40-81 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17944 (none) (none) (none) Arrowheads. Flint. Leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
17948 (none) (none) (none) Palette. Flint. Ground hollow. [drawing 1:1]
17949 (none) (none) (none) Flint. [drawing 1:1]
17950 32-40-116 (none) (none) Flint. Polished on both sides. [drawing 1:1]
17951 32-40-117 (none) (none) Flint. Black stone. [drawing 1:1]
17965 (none) (none) (none) Stone object. Sandstone. [drawing 1:1]
18115 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
18142A (none) 1932,1008.134 (none) Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty.
18185 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Red limestone. An antelope and a rayed disk standard star above. Poor flat work, much worn.
18220 (none) (none) (none) Lion's head. White limestone. From the neck protrudes a tenon, for once pierced horizontally for attachment. Very fine miniature work, the surface a bit decayed.
18223 (none) 1933,1013.98 (none) Macehead. Very flat type, of extremely hard and white limestone. A hole has been made, apparently intentionally between the center and one side of the rim.
18235 (none) (none) (none) Flint instrument [drawing 1:1]
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
18257 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Winged monster and scorpion.
18266A (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) 3 triple-bored square spacers of glazed frit, a quantity of minute rings and tubes of blue paste, tubes of white paste and pink limestone; then probably all going together. Also: (B) A mixed string of shell tubes, cylinders and date shaped: glazed frit lozenges, glass paste date-shaped: glaze nasturtium seed, discoids, glass balls, paste double conoids, glass cylinders and paste rings and 1 carnelian cylinder. Found in disorder.
18309 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of inlay. White limestone. From a frieze of Al Obaid type. A man, naked except for a loin cloth, kneeling on one knee and wielding a paddle or punt-pole (?). The head missing.
18348 (none) 1933,1013.156 (none) Beads. Roughly cut from various stones. Limestone, marble, pebble, crystal etc. Roughly date shaped, tubular, balls. Not in original order.
18368 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Palm tree and 2 figures.
18369 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. On square pedestal like a four-legged bath, the legs broken off. [drawing 1:2]
18434 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine limestone. JN8 [drawing 2:5]

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Igneous - Metamorphic

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