Context (Display)
Previously exhibited with beads from Linton (1948.1579).
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Field collection)
Grave 158, excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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. p.23. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
String of beads. It includes crystal, amber, polychrome and 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)

Context (Analysis)
p. 23 of 'Saxon Obsequies' states that 24 beads were found in Grave 158. The present string numbers 62, and it is currently impossible to say which beads belong to Grave 158.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
String of 59 glass, crystal and amber beads. 17 annular blue glass beads; five polychrome glass beads; three yellow glass beads; 17 amber beads; three glass melon beads; three large, faceted crystal beads.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe