Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card reads: '3 black serpentine spacing beads A. 7 perforations, worked at one end and may have had more perforations 30x105x16'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1926
Event Date 1926
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: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2041 A-D: 'D= steatite spacing bead with 7 perforations. [crossed through] (his b and c are missing)' [beads have now been found as part of the Stores Move 2020 project, Sam Daisley]
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Historic description: '7 perforations; Broken; Black; Rectangular in profile; oval in section'
Event Date 15/01/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Spacer bead made of black serpentine; six complete perforations and one incomplete. Rectangular profile and oval cross-section.
Event Date 17/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley