Context (Found together / assemblage)
Neville describes the contexts of Grave 10 as: 'two cruciform fibulae... with elegant tops, one has been slightly gilt, the other silvered; fifty-two beads of various materials... one very large of amber; three small bronze Rings and one large ditto'. However, as noted on the catalogue card for 1948.1339 A-D, four small rings listed as from Grave 10 entered the museum, including two rings that (when cleaned) were discovered to be silver. The two silver rings (1948.1339 A-B) were, at an unknown date, strung at each end of this string of beads (1948.1338).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Beads. They include square and rectangular polychrome glass beads, blue and acquamarine glass beads, one black inlaid with white. On one bead which is black it is inlaid with white and an eye pattern in yellow
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 10, 1851.
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. Pl. XIX (No.10)
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)
One large amber bead. The ends of the string of beads terminate in a silver loop.
Event Date 20/2/2012
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
This string of beads was previously on display, with no accession number, in the Clarke Gallery along with two small-long brooches (1948.1335-1336) from Grave 10, Little Wilbraham. When checked against the illustration in Saxon Obsequies listed for this accession number, it was found to be a match. They were not illustrated with the silver rings.
Event Date 20/2/2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
String of 41 glass and one amber bead; two silver rings (1948.1339 A-B). 20 transparent, annular blue glass beads; four opaque, annular yellow glass beads; seven opaque glass beads with trailed decoration; seven cuboid or rectangular polychrome glass beads with feathered decoration. One large cylindrical amber bead.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe