Accession No
1950.85 B.5
Description
Two melted fragments of red glass bead, both fused to cremated bone.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lackford; Mill Heath
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1950.85 B.5; TDY 39 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass; Bone; Human bone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Pagan Saxon Cemetery.
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found inside 1950.85 A.
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Fused.
Event Date 1950
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1951). ‘A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk: Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon Period in 1947.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Found together / assemblage)
A small fragment of an unburnt white glass ?bead was found with 1950.85 B.3 in 2001 and assigned the temporary number TEMP.00979.
Event Date 2001
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1950.85 B.2 and B.5: '3 bead fragments.'
Event Date 23/5/2001
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Imogen Gunn description for 1950.85 B.2 and B.5: 3 fused beads, one adhered to two fragments of bone.
Event Date 26/11/2019
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Amendments / updates)
1950.85 B.3 originally included three beads, due to human remains being fused to two of the beads they have been suffixed as .5 and removed and packed with human remains from the same site. .3 now contains only one bead.
Event Date 19/10/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Two melted fragments of red glass bead, both fused to cremated bone.
Event Date 19/10/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:288114
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