Context (Display)
1923.118 and 1923.119 mounted together for display with handwritten label read: 'Beds of glass and amber. ASHWELL, HERTS. Ransom Collection.' On reverse, written: 'Large Necklace 23.118. Small [necklace] 23.119'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1923.118[.1-3]: 'Saxon bead necklace.'
Event Date 1923
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Field collection)
From cemetery near Ashwell
Event Date 17/2/1992
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1923.118[.1-3]: 'Necklace of beads.'
Event Date 17/2/1992
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1923.118[.1-3] and 1923.119[.1-3]: 'Found numbered 1923.118 and 1923.119 are 6 strings of glass and amber beads. There are 100 whole beads and some fragments. These are: 42 plain glass; 23 multi-coloured decorated beads; 9 red glass beads; 2 green glass; 1 cylindrical green glass; 2 clear glass; 1 small iridescent blue glass; 7 yellow beads and one much corroded white glass bead; 2 turquoise blue glass; 8 clear melon beads; 2 amber; a number of fragmentary amber. It is not clear which beads relate to which record.'
Event Date 27/4/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
String of 23 glass beads. Three fluted, annular and blue; two annular and white. 18 are polychrome; one white with blue dots, one dark blue swirled with white, one annular and white with spiralled blue inlay, two dark blue with red and white speckling, one dark green with trailed red and yellow ornament, three red with yellow trailed ornament, one cylindrical with yellow circumferential lines at each end and zigzag white inlay, one white with red interlacing lines and dots, one cylindrical white with red and yellow inlay, three white with green interlacing lines and red dots, one white with red interlacing lines and green dots, two white with green and red stripes.
Event Date 14/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe