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Title: Amber necklace
Item Name: Dress and Personal Accessories

Description:

Two large facetted beads of white crystal, two elongated beads of blue-grey paste, one bead of green paste and one bead of red and yellow paste, eighty seven beads of red unworked amber. This Anglo Saxon necklace dates to the 5th or 6th C AD. From grave 49 of the Anglian cemetery at Home Farm, Sewerby.


Year: 500-600(c)
Culture: Anglo-Saxon
Materials: amber; crystal; glass
Measurements: L:68.5cm
ID_Number: ERYMS : 1993.1431

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