Description (Physical description)
Annular bead of dark blue glass inlaid with an irregular wavy band of yellow glass, mounted in gold - the perforation lined with gold, and a gold band encircling the circumference.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps cemetery, Grave 24
Excavated by T.C. Lethbridge in 1933
Event Date 1933
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1936). A Cemetery At Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire. Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Quarto Publications. New Series, V. p 8, Fig. 4.D
Event Date 1936
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Brugmann, Birte. (2004). Glass beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves. Oxford: Oxbow Books
Event Date 2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Evans, C., S. Lucy and R. Patten. (2018). Riversides: Neolithic Barrows, A Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge'. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. p. 326
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Grave 24 was the bed burial of a young woman, whose only grave good was apparently this bead. Lethbridge described the iron fittings but did not identify it as a bed burial. It was included in a list of bed burials in Evans, Lucy and Patten (2018).
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)