Accession No
1948.1656 B
Description
Blue glass cylinder disc bead. Cracked into several pieces, affixed to a cardboard mount with thread.
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
1948.1656 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass
Local Term
Measurements
18mm
Events
Context (Display)
Mounted on card with handwritten note reading: 'Blue glass bead found with Skeletons No. 15 and 16 August 25th'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
From Graves 15 and 16, excavated on 25 August 1851.
Event Date 25/8/1851
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. 14, Pl. XXI
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Description (CMS Description)
Blue; With skeletons 15 and 16
Event Date 27/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Blue glass cylinder disc bead. Cracked into several pieces, affixed to a cardboard mount with thread.
Event Date 4/1/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Context (Amendments / updates)
Although this was previously listed as either coming from Little Wilbraham or Linton Heath, the date and grave numbers identifies it firmly as from Little Wilbraham and it is illustrated in 'Saxon Obsequies'. The Place field has therefore been updated accordingly.
Event Date 4/1/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Other)
Only 1948.1656 A.1 is listed in the Accession Register (as 1948.1656); the remainder of this accession number, 1948.1656 A.2-9 and 1948.1656 B, were only listed on the catalogue card, possibly because, like 1948.1656 A.1, their Place information was uncertain. In the case of B, this has subsequently been clarified.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:19241
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