Context (Field collection)
According to the workmen' s account the skeleton lay on its face, with one arm across its face and the other extended; the beads were round the wrist of the extended arm. The skeleton was not examined in situ, but T.C. Lethbridge visited the site immediately afterwards and was able to see exactly where it had lain and to recover the pin.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card reads: "Note by Horace Beck. Oct.1931" which is the description given above of the beads; Found: Found lying on a layer of compressed sedges 2.0" to 3.0" thick, which rested directly on undisturbed clay, and was covered by 1' 9" of peat. The site was 28 yards away from an " Old Run" (extinct waterway).
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Jet barrel beads. All the beads are slightly elliptical in section, the amount varying from rather under 0.02" up to 0.08" . Except for one or two flaws which were evidently there when the beads were being worn, these beads are singularly free from flaws and well polished. Varying lengths 1.08" to 0.50" and the sections from 0.37" to 0.26" Polished; Found round the wrist of a skeleton
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T. C. (1932). 'A Skeleton of the Early Bronze Age Found in the Fens' in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. 6 (no. 4), p. 362, Pl. XXXIII.
Event Date 1932
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T. C. (1950). 'Excavation of the Snailwell Group of Bronze Age Barrows' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. XLIII, p. 35 and footnote 3.
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Amendments / updates)
The accession register gives the location as Southery Fen, Isle of Ely - thereby implying the county of Cambridgeshire; the annual report and the catalogue card give the county as Norfolk. The latter is correct (although the confusion is understandable as Southery is near the border). Both the annual report and the accession register give the donor as Major Gordon Fowler, but for an unknown reason the catalogue card gives the source as the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, which as been transcribed into the CMS record. As the annual report and accession register agree, this has been removed and Fowler listed instead.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The 1932 Lethbridge article implies (in the description of Plate XXXIII) that the female skeleton, beads and awl/pin were uncovered in 1920. The report on the skull (p. 364) indicates that it was once held by museum along with the beads and awl/pin.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Hunter, John and Woodward, Ann. (2015). ‘Ritual in early Bronze Age Grave Goods Project’. Unpublished Leverhulme research project record sheets, University of Birmingham.
Event Date 2015
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Amendments / updates)
Short description previously noted size of the beads, this information has now been transferred to the appropriate fields.
Event Date 26/7/2018
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Related Documents)
See Doc.427 for Hunter and Woodward unpublished object sheets.
Event Date 29/8/2018
Author: Annie McKay