Accession No

1948.1326


Description

Two strings of beads attached together, one containing eight beads, the other with 39 beads. Three multicolour glass bead: one yellow and red, and two blue and white. Coloured glass beads; some possibly of pottery. 37 amber beads. Seven fragments of bead detached but present.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1326


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass; Amber; ?Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
From graves 4, 5, 7; 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. (not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card notes: '51 beads labelled as from graves 4, 5 and 7. ?Pottery beads may be the six found in grave 7, the remainder having come from graves 4 and 5'.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Beads. Of these one cylindrical polychrome, two black and white inlaid, one olive green glass and two orange.
Event Date 31/3/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Two strings of beads attached together, one containing eight beads, the other with 39 beads. Three multicolour glass bead: one yellow and red, and two blue and white. Coloured glass beads; some possibly of pottery. 37 amber beads. Seven fragments of bead detached but present.
Event Date 4/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:15919

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