Accession No
1948.1630
Description
String of seven glass beads. One blue tube bead with longitudinal gold striping; one opaque yellow oblate bead; one opaque red, yellow and green barrel bead; one barrel bead with a very worn surface; one oblate bead with a yellow and blue applied design; one small, dark brown oblate bead with three yellow dots, and one small, pitted iridescent oblate bead.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Linton; Linton Heath
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1630
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass; ?Metal; ?Gold
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Seven beads. 3 inlaid: 1 opaque yellow; l polychrome red, yellow and green; 1 irridescent; 1 dark blue cylindrical
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Linton Heath Barrow. Grave 103, excavated in 1853
From various graves
Event Date 1853
Author: maa
Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1854). ‘Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Excavated, January, 1853’. The Archaeological Journal, vol. XI. pp. 95-115
Event Date 1854
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Description (Physical description)
String of seven glass beads. One blue tube bead with longitudinal gold striping; one opaque yellow oblate bead; one opaque red, yellow and green barrel bead; one barrel bead with a very worn surface; one oblate bead with a yellow and blue applied design; one small, dark brown oblate bead with three yellow dots, and one small, pitted iridescent oblate bead.
Event Date 6/1/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
FM:15967
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