Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label attached to string reads: 'Whetstone?'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'D. 3 rough beads of ?'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck catalogue card for 1947.2037[.1-6] reads: Probably mostly if not all prehistoric.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1925.
Event Date 1925
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Horace Beck and donated by his widow, Gundred Beck in 1947. See Horace Beck’s handwritten catalogue, classified by region (WO1/1/2).  
Event Date 1947
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2037[.1-6]: 'String of Carnelian and jasper beads and pendants from 1926 excavations. Mr. Beck's No 1343 which he has subdivided A-F. A = 4 pierced pebbles. B = 5 pendants. C = String of 36 roughly ground carnelian beads. E = 4 rough carnelian beads.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Red (one example); Brown (two example); Ring
Event Date 12/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
String of three stone beads. One cylinder disc bead of unpolished red-brown stone, one annular bead with a sunken perforation, possibly of light grey jasper with black veining, and one cylinder disc bead of partially polished white stone.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad