Accession No
1948.1461
Description
41 beads on a string. 25 amber of rough shapes and sizes; one crystal; 12 glass (six dark blue, three yellow opaque, two dark red, and one large aquamarine); two polychrome (red, green and yellow); and one jet with ring and dot engraving and double perforation. Several amber beads broken, detached but present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1461
Cultural Affliation
Material
Amber; Glass; Jet; Crystal
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Grave 170, 1851, with 1948.1459.
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. Pl. XVIII : 170.
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
28 amber of rough shapes and sizes; 1 crystal; 12 glass (6 dark blue, 3 yellow opaque, 2 dark red, and 1 large aquamarine); 2 polychrome (red, green and yellow); and 1 ?jet with ring and dot engraving and double perforation
Event Date 23/4/1987
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)
41 beads on a string. 25 amber of rough shapes and sizes; one crystal; 12 glass (six dark blue, three yellow opaque, two dark red, and one large aquamarine); two polychrome (red, green and yellow); and one jet with ring and dot engraving and double perforation. Several amber beads broken, detached but present.
Event Date 6/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19226
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