Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with objects reads: 'Ridgeway Bequest. 27.1190. c. AD 1.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Other)
Labelled: 'The contents of this box are from graves near Koban in the Caucasus and were given to me by Mr John Baddeley the historian of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, etc. etc"
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label previously attached to glass bead reads: 'All are common in Hungary. Migration Period 3-4-5 c.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Part of a group of objects from graves.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1927.1190 K.1-34: 'Group of objects from graves: Glass beads'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Uvarova, P.S. (1900). 'The Cemeteries of North Caucasus'. Materials for Caucasian Archaeology, Vol. 8. Moscow.
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Related Documents)
A letter (dated 27/11/1903) from John Baddeley to William Ridgeway says: 'I am now sending a small box containing some beads, iron axeheads and a glass bracelet from Saniba, an Ossetine village a few miles south of Koban. Various dates have been assigned for the grave-find, some BC, some AD. Anyway it is much later than the old Koban.'

Event Date 27/11/1903
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Eight stone beads. Includes two translucent carnelian beads; one opaque; one bead of agate; one narrow orange bead and three larger brown beads.
Event Date 10/4/2024
Author: Clare McKenna