Amber bead

Details

• Title

  Amber bead

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › West Oxfordshire District › Hardwick-with-Yelford parish › Yelford Anglo-Saxon cemetery (Grave 17) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 400 - 1066)

• Material and technique

  amber

• Material index

  organic › hydrocarbon › amber

• Object type

  personal ornament › jewellery › bead

• Dimensions

  1.4 cm (diameter)

• 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.

  AN1966.195

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