Bead

Details

• Title

  Bead

• Associated people

  Donald Benjamin Harden (1901 - 1994) (excavator)

  Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877 - 1955) (excavator)

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › Vale of the White Horse › Abingdon parish › Saxton Road Anglo-Saxon cemetery (Context B102) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Early Anglo-Saxon period (Britain) (AD 400 - 650)

• Material and technique

  amber, rock crystal

• Material index

  organic › hydrocarbon › amber;

  inorganic › mineral › silica › quartz › rock crystal

• Object type

  personal ornament › jewellery › bead

• Dimensions

  2 cm (diameter)
  1.9 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Abingdon Town Council.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1935.53.c

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