Accession No

Z 16189 B


Description

Single blue glass melon bead; rounded and thicker at one end.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Burwell


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 16189 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass


Local Term


Measurements

11mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached reads: 'Burwell Grave 129. Child. Nothing else.' (transcribed by Jean Somerville 8/5/2001)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn


Context (Related Documents)
For photocopies of Lethbridge’s Burwell excavation notes, drawings, etc. see WO8/1/1 in Archive.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley


Description (Physical description)
Bead
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn


Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1931). ‘Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.’ Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, n.s. 3. pp. 47-70

Event Date 1931
Author: Sam Daisley


Context (CMS Context)
Anglo Saxon cemetery, Grave 129 (child's burial)
Excavated by: T.C. Lethbridge 1929
Event Date 14/8/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
'Blue "melon" bead.' J.Somerville
Event Date 8/5/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Single blue glass melon bead; rounded and thicker at one end.
Event Date 19/4/2021
Author: Sam Daisley


FM:19464

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