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Carter No.: 620

Handlist description: Floor rubbish

Card/Transcription No.: 620-1


620 Minerals from Floor Rubbish (Annexe)

1. Irregular pieces of bright yellow crystalline material with small red patches: surface has a pearly lustre. This is native orpiment (i.e. yellow sulphide of arsenic). The red is realgar.

2. Small piece of dull, yellow, amorphous material. This is yellow ochre.

3. Small piece of brick-red, amorphous material. This is red ochre.

4. Small irregular piece of black material largely coated with brown & having a few small white patches. This consists essentially of sand grains cemented together by black oxide of iron: the brown coating is also oxide of iron and the tiny white patches are carbonate of lime. The whole suggests the veins of oxide of iron that occur in the Nubian sandstone.

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