TAA i.2.12a.1.23

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Collar/<Necklace> No 53a (was found on top of box 54)

Removed superficial dust by blowing with a 

small pair of bellows.
A crystalline deposit and a brown incrustation 

were present on many of the beads/<pendants>. The deposit 

consisted of common salt and the incrustation 

apparently was largely oxide of iron.
Soaked in water for several days to remove 

the salt, syphoning off the water each morning 

and replacing it by fresh.
Two large crystals of common salt picked out 

from among the pendants – one was a cube 

measuring 7 mm along the side and the other 

was about half this size.
This collar was found on the lid of Box No 54 

(39 cms high i.e. 39 cms from floor) and there was 

no evidence either of water or of salt on the 

box lid.
Some/<Several> of the pendants pieces were broken in 

two pieces and many had one of the eyes broken 

off. Repaired the pendants with some with 

a strong solution of celluloid in amyl acetate