Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card for Z 16101: 'probably not from a single grave'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Record for 1926.245: '16 beads probably forming a single necklace, they are as follows. 5 dark blue glass of a common type, 4 amber squarish in shape and very well made, 2 fossil sponges (coscinophora 1 large and 1 small), 1 large red vitreous paste inlaid with yellow and green much decayed, 1 small red vitreous paste inlaid with twist of yellow and green very neatly made, 1 clear glass very pale seagreen, 1 greenish yellow vitreous paste inlaid with black in a pseudo spiral pattern and may well be an early bead, 1 small yellowish green vitreous paste.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Accession Register for 1926.245: 'Collected in 1851'
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.
Event Date 1852
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville description for Z 16101: 'Sixteen beads; 4 amber, 6 blue glass, 3 polychrome, one olive green glass and 2 ?bone.'
Event Date 19/12/2000
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
String of 16 beads. Four amber barrel beads; three polychrome glass beads; five dark blue glass annular beads; one annular yellow-green bead; one clear blue glass; and two beads of bone, stone or fossil sponge (coscinophora).
Event Date 8/1/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
At an unknown date, these beads lost association with their original accession number (1926.245) and were reaccessioned as Z 16101. They have subsequently been matched up based on description.
Event Date 8/1/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other owners)
If, as the accession register notes, these beads were collected in 1851, then they will have been found as part of Richard Cornwallis Neville's excavation. It is not currently known how Rev. J.G. Clarke obtained them. Neville has therefore been tentatively added to the Source field.
Event Date 8/1/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)