Context (Field collection)
Grave 174. Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: maa

Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray. Pl. XVIII (no. 174)
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Other)
The catalogue card notes: 'Neville says that 88 beads, including 3 silver ones, were found, but Plate XVIII No. 174 'Saxon Obsequies' show these 60 beads. 2 coins of 'Constantine family' also not traced.'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Beads: 11 amber, 7 polychrome or inlaid, and 27 dark blue. The remainder are varying colours of glass including dark red and olive green and 2 opaque yellow beads. 3 hollow silver ones (5 when repaired): these are almost spherical in shape with large perforations for threading. The surface is divided into quarters with vertical grooving, giving an appearance resembling a Roman melon bead. 2 of the beads are very fragmentary, the remaining 3 are complete
Event Date 9/3/1987
Author: maa

Context (References)
Brugmann, Birte. (2004). Glass beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves. Oxford: Oxbow Books
Event Date 2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation ()
80.1 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
64 beads on a string. 27 blue glass annular beads, 11 red opaque glass beads, two glass transparent beads, one very damaged. The remainder are varying colours of glass including dark red, green and two opaque yellow beads. Five large hollow metal spherical beads, possibly silver.
Event Date 4/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett