Accession No

Z 16101


Description

16 glass beads on a string. Five dark blue annular beads, four red barrel beads, two annular cream opaque beads and five annular beads of a variety of colours.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Clarke, J. G. (Reverend)


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 16101


Cultural Affliation


Material

glass; amber


Local Term


Measurements


Events

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: Louise Puckett


Context (CMS Context)
The catalogue card has the following entry: " probably not from a single grave" . This record is an amalgam of two catalogue cards
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
'Sixteen beads; 4 amber, 6 blue glass, 3 polychrome, one olive green glass and 2 ?bone. J. Somerville 19/12/2000'
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
16 glass beads on a string. Five dark blue annular beads, four red barrel beads, two annular cream opaque beads and five annular beads of a variety of colours.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19287

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