Bead

Details

• Title

  Bead

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › West Oxfordshire District › Hardwick-with-Yelford parish › Yelford Anglo-Saxon cemetery (Grave 16) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 400 - 1066)

• Material and technique

  amethyst

• Material index

  inorganic › mineral › silica › quartz › amethyst

• Object type

  personal ornament › jewellery › bead

• Dimensions

  4.7 cm (length)
  1.8 cm (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by the Executors of Mr Stephen Stone, 1857.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1966.189

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