Accession No

Z 16180 G.1


Description

A string of 22 beads. Six amber beads. Two red glass barrel beads; two blue beads, one barrel and one annular; two green beads, one spherical, one short convex bicone; one yellow barrel bead. Two yellow beads with green trail, two green beads with red trail, one white with blue trail, one blue with red trail, one light green with dark green trail.


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 16180 G.1; MAA: Z 16002


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass; Amber


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 16180 G[.1-6]: 'Beads of amber and glass'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Anglo Saxon cemetery, grave 7, ?grave 4
Collected by Lethbridge.T.C.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa


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 (Related Documents)
Found with these beads an old label which notes: "Toggle bead Grave 4".' [transcribed by Kate Sutton, 14/6/2001, for Z 16180 G[.1-6]]
Event Date 14/6/2001
Author: Emily Shorter


Description (Physical description)
Kate Sutton for Z 16180 G[.1-6]: 'One amber bead and one large light green glass bead mounted on perspex. Loose: One blue glass bead strung on a piece of wire. String of 22 beads consisting of: 6 amber, 2 badly worn beads, 2 plain green glass, 2 plain red, 1 yellow bead with red coating which is coming off, 2 plain blue glass, 2 green with red trail, 2 yellow with green trail, 1 white with blue trail, 1 blue with red trail, 1 light green with dark green trail. Also found with these beads are one amber bead and one chalk bead toggle with'
Event Date 14/6/2001
Author: Emily Shorter


Description (Physical description)
A string of 22 beads. Six amber beads, two large and four small. Two red glass barrel beads; two blue beads, one barrel and one annular; two green beads, one spherical, one short convex bicone; one yellow barrel bead. Two yellow beads with green trail, two green beads with red trail, one white with blue trail, one blue with red trail, one light green with dark green trail.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Emily Shorter


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