Accession No

Z 16063


Description

String of 17 glass beads. Opaque beads; two spherical blue, one yellow cylinder, one green cylinder disk, one red cylinder disk and two white cylinder disks with blue inlay. Translucent beads; two composite spherical beads, one red annular, one cylinder disk, two blue annular, three blue spherical and one large blue melon.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Petty Cury


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Roe [vendor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 16063


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
The card has the following entry: "Found during digging" .
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: '17 beads in total. 2 buff coloured segmented; 1 small red; 1 olive green; 1 cylindrical yellow; 5 turquoise; 2 dark blue; 1 melon bead, blue; 1 white with blue inlay; 1 blue with ?white inlay; 1 red pottery; 1 green'.
Event Date 30/4/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
String of 17 glass beads. Opaque beads; two spherical blue, one yellow cylinder, one green cylinder disk, one red cylinder disk and two white cylinder disks with blue inlay. Translucent beads; two composite spherical beads, one red annular, one cylinder disk, two blue annular, three blue spherical and one large blue melon.
Event Date 11/5/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt


Context (Other)
The label found with the object reads: '"Bought from Roe, Petty Cury,' and on reverse 'during digging"'. This has been taken to mean that they were found at Petty Cury during digging, although it is possible that the vendor Roe was based at Petty Cury, and the beads were found elsewhere. More work needs to be done to establish which is the case.
Event Date 1/12/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


FM:8941

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