Accession No
1948.1324
Description
A string of 61 dark blue annular glass beads.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1324
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass
Local Term
Measurements
140mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Grave 2, 1851. Associated with a small bronze finger ring. Found with inhumation.
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
Description (CMS Description)
Dark blue plain glass beads;
Event Date 2/4/1987
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)
A string of 61 dark blue annular glass beads.
Event Date 4/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:15922
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