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LOT 1739
Anglo-Saxon Glass and Amber Necklace Bead Group
LATE 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
1/4 - 1 in. (42 grams total, 5-27 mm).
Including oblate, annular, tubular and other types; large green glass melon bead. [54]
Provenance
Found Seaham, Co Durham, UK.
Property of a Durham private collector.
Literature
See Brugmann, B., Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves, Oxford, 2004.
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