Context (Field collection)
Grave B.
Event Date
Author: Lily Pencliffe

Description (Physical description)
Record for 1886.31.5 [A-E]: 'Three large beads and several strings of small coloured glass and rough amber beads'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Baron Anatole von Hügel and Walter Kidman Foster. Exhumed with a number of skeletons at Girton College May and June 1886
Event Date 1886
Author: maa

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1886.31.5 [A-E]: 'Six strings of beads found. None of these had the number "1886.31.5" associated with them.
One string consists of 58 small, spherical amber beads, and 11 larger rough amber beads.
A string of 25 amber beads, one of which is fragmentary.
A string of 14 amber beads.
A further string of 14 beads, 12 spherical (several of which are glass), two cylindrical. Two of the spherical are larger, one decorated with white on black, one red with white lines.
A string of 7 beads. Two are blue cylindrical, five are segmented beads.'
Event Date 28/3/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Jane Pettitt for 1886.31.5 [A-E]: 'Five strings of beads. String 1: 56 small, amber spherical beads and 11 larger amber beads, roughly square cylinder in shape; two of the larger beads are damaged and two small beads are detached in fragments but present.
String 2: 25 barrel shaped amber beads, small to medium in varying size; two beads are damaged.
String 3: 12 spherical amber beads and two larger triangular-shaped amber beads.
String 4: 14 beads comprising of two cylindrical beads and 12 annular beads including one of blue glass and two of a larger size and detailed design; one black bead decorated with white undulating lines and one red bead with white line detailing.
String 5: seven glass beads; two blue rectangular beads, four segmented beads and one single spherical bead, all with a lenticular cross section.'
Event Date 26/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
56 small, amber spherical beads and 11 larger amber beads, roughly square cylinder in shape; two of the larger beads are damaged and two small beads are detached in fragments but present.
Event Date 3/6/2021
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Update provided by Katie Haworth: '56 small amber beads and 11 larger amber beads; two of the larger beads are damaged and two small beads are detached in fragments but present. 20 flattened barrel I, 13 flattened barrel II, 21 barrel-shaped, three disc-shaped, five short cylinder, three perforated nodule, one globular.'
Event Date 14/10/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe