Accession No

1948.1334 B


Description

String of 31 glass beads. Three transparent aquamarine beads, two ribbed; six annular polychrome; 15 annular transparent blue glass; two opaque melon beads, one yellow and one green; the rest opaque red and yellow.


Place

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


Period

Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1334 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Beads. There are no amber beads; 3 transparent aquamarine glass, 2 fluted like Roman beads; 4 polychrome yellow, green, red; 2 inlaid white with blue and red; 6 opaque glass, yellow, green and red
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 9, 1851.
Originally 32 beads with this burial
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. IX (No.18)
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 31 glass beads. Three transparent aquamarine beads, two ribbed; six annular polychrome; 15 annular transparent blue glass; two opaque melon beads, one yellow and one green; the rest opaque red and yellow.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:15906

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