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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