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.Twenty-three beads: 2 translucent brown rings; 1 decayed barrel with yellow interlace and spots; 2 decayed beads; 1 orange bead; 1 decayed bead probably once orange; 2 brown opaque; 1 green translucent globule; 1 opaque dark brown spiral; 2 opaque black melon-shaped; 1 Prussian blue ring; 1 deep green ring translucent; 1 smaller dittto; 1 decayed opaque red hexagon with millefiori flowers in green/yellow and red/yellow (broken); 1 fragment of similar; 2 colourless multiple units of one; 1 long bright blue opaque; 2 tiny porcelain white ringsThis 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
M6625d
Catalogue Number
M 6625
Material
glass (Sonia Hawkes Material Notes; N/A) (Antiquarian Material; N/A)