Accession No
Z 16181.3
Description
String of 13 beads. Two white segmented glass beads, one with one segment now detached. One oblate red glass bead and one annular blue bead with yellow trail. Nine amber beads including one barrel bead.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Soham
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]; Tebbutt, Charles Frederick [excavator]; Leaf, C. S. [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 16181.3
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass; Amber
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1933). 'Anglo-Saxon Burials at Soham, Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 33. pp 152-163
Event Date 1933
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (CMS Context)
Anglo Saxon cemetery, grave 9
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Beads of glass and amber
'Three segmented beads, nine amber beads, one red glass bead, one blue glass with yellow trail. K. Sutton 14/6/2001'
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
String of 13 beads. Two white segmented glass beads, one with one segment now detached. One oblate red glass bead and one annular blue bead with yellow trail. Nine amber beads including one barrel bead.
Event Date 22/4/2021
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:19596
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