Accession No
Z 16256
Description
Ear ring formed of a copper alloy slip-ring; a copper alloy figure of eight loop is threaded onto the primary ring with traces of yellow bead. Two small chains of thin wire fused to glass beads, including blue glass, detached but present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Girton; Girton College
Period
?Anglo Saxon ?Roman
Source
Girton College, Cambridge [donor]; Jenkinson, Francis John Henry [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 16256
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Earring(s) = beads on bronze slip-ring' and in a later hand 'chain and beads fused'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
The card has the following entry: "From an urn, no. unknown. Cf chain from Richboro"
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Beads on bronze slipring, chain and beads fused
Event Date
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: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Ear ring formed of a copper alloy slip-ring; a copper alloy figure of eight loop is threaded onto the primary ring with traces of yellow bead. Two small chains of thin wire fused to glass beads, including blue glass, detached but present.
Event Date 20/11/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:9093
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