Context (Display)
1883.511 B.1-B.5 mounted together on perspex for display.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.511 [B.1-8]: 'Necklace of amber, crystal, glass, and clay beads. 3 Roman coins. A spindlewhorl. A pair of ornate bronze girdle hangers. Plus handle of a third girdle hanger.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Report to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. XVIII (May 29 1848), p. 6.
Event Date 29/6/1848
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1883.511 [B.1-8]: 'Necklace. Amber, glass + clay beads with 3 Roman coins + a par of ornate bronze girdle hangers.'
Event Date 1883
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1883.511 [B.1-8]: 'The Roman coins are pierced for suspension. The ring of one girdle hanger is broken off and missing. All three girdle hangers have horses heads at the ring end, and the two complete ones have two bird's heads at the other end. Both "complete" girdle hangers have been broken along the shaft.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Archaeologies of the Founding Collection: Artefacts that Established the Museum', from March 2002 to December 2003.
Event Date 3/2002
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.511 [B.1]: 'Necklace of amber, crystal, glass, and clay beads'
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.511 [B.2-4]: 'Three Roman coins.'
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
String of 24 beads (B.1) and three Roman coins (B.2-4). Four amber beads; two large, biconical crystal beads; two polychrome glass beads (yellow and green); 18 glass beads of various colours and shapes; and three doubly-perforated Roman coins.
Event Date 6/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett