Accession No
1923.1577 C
Description
String of 12 beads. Seven irregular shaped amber beads, one clear glass melon bead, two annular glass yellow beads. One glass barrel bead, black with yellow inlay. One glass spherical bead with three yellow/white inlay spots. Fragments of a broken amber bead present but detached.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Barrington; ?Edix Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Ryan (Lady) [donor]; Redfern, William Beales [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1923.1577 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Amber; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
117mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card has the following entry: "Group find. Uncertain which cemetery these came from"
?Cemetery A; ?Edix Hill (near Orwell).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Acquisition Details)
The Redfern Collection was presented to MAA by Lady Ryan of Hintlesham Hall, in memory of the late Mr William Redfern. It is described in the Annual Report as an 'important series of local antiquities of the Bronze Age and later, which [Redfern] had collected'.
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1923.1577 A-C: '2 debased small-long bronze brooches. 12 beads of amber and glass.'
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Malim, Tim and Hines, John. (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire. CBA Research Report 112. York: Council for British Archaeology p. 95
Event Date 1998
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1923.1577 A-C: 'One brooch broken in half at the bow, both pieces present. 12 beads strung, another broken bead also found.'
Event Date 10/1/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
String of 12 beads. Seven irregular shaped amber beads, one clear glass melon bead, two annular glass yellow beads. One glass barrel bead, black with yellow inlay. One glass spherical bead with three yellow/white inlay spots. Fragments of a broken amber bead present but detached.
Event Date 27/4/2021
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:287040
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