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bead
Object Type
bead
Museum number
1902,1108.140
Description
Beads: forty-one; twenty polychrome glass; nine monochrome glass; three melon; nine amber.
Cultures/periods
Merovingian
Production date
6thC-7thC
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Mosel, River
(?|region)
Found/Acquired:
Moselle, River
(?|region)
Found/Acquired:
Rhine, River
(?|region)
Materials
amber
glass
Curator's comments
Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS) Provenance: Unrecorded, but said to be from "the district of the Rhine and Moselle", Germany; recent research has shown that the vendor has been notoriously unreliable. Given by The Friends of The British Museum Acquired from David Reiling of Mainz through Max Rosenheim
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Friends of the British Museum
Purchased through:
David Reiling
Acquisition date
1902
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1902,1108.140