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
FM:19605
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