Accession No

1948.1348


Description

String of 25 beads. 16 amber beads of spherical, annular and irregular shapes; three polychrome glass beads; two blue melon beads; three small annular glass beads and one cylindrical.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1348


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass; Amber


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Beads. The majority are of amber; two imitate the Roman melon bead; three are polychrome; one dark blue with red spots; two very small blue glass and one green
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 31. Excavated in 1851.
35 beads were originally found in this grave.

Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe


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. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa


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


Description (Physical description)
String of 25 beads. 16 amber beads of spherical, annular and irregular shapes; three polychrome glass beads; two blue melon beads; three small annular glass beads and one cylindrical.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:15886

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