Gatty Slip for M6625: Tablet with 122 glass beads strung on it, some transparent - some opaque - all colours - found on Sibertswold & Barfreston Downs, 17722, 1733.Seven polychrome beads:2 melon beads of faience; 1 cylindrical grooved bead, heavy, blue; 1 opaque black melon-shaped; 1 red sharp bi-conical with bright yellow interlacing trails around edge; 1 deep blue cylinder with opaque white and yellow wavy trails; 1 opaque red cylinder with white and red wavy trails.This catalogue number is used by several other collections of beads. Collected together by colour and clearly from a number of graves and not all certainly from Sibertswold or Barfreston.
History
Grave ID
Unknown Sibertswold Downs and Barfrestone Grave
Barfrestone or Sibertswold Downs
Sibertswold or Barfrestone
Object ID
M6625e
Catalogue Number
M 6625
Material
glass (Sonia Hawkes Material Notes; fainence) (Antiquarian Material; N/A)