Anglo-Saxon Funerary Urn with Bead Contents

(Ceramic, stone, glass and amber, 2 kg, 22 cm.).

Circa 5th-6th century AD. A coil-made globular funerary urn in dark brown fabric with everted rim; to the shoulder a band of horizontal incised lines above four radiating panels with vertical incised lines; complete with a group of thirteen glass beads and fragments found in the urn including melon and disc types, a pierced amber bead, a large green stone with natural hole and a pierced quartz crystal.

Provenance

Found in a burial chamber on a building site near East Harling, Norfolk, UK in the late 1990's.

CONDITION

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LOT 687

Anglo-Saxon Funerary Urn with Bead Contents

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,840

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