[Regia-NA] FW: Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves

[Nicholson, Andrew]

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From: WG Kilbride [mailto:wgk1 at YORK.AC.UK]
Sent: 19 October 2004 07:51
Subject: Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves


Birte Brugmann and ADS / AHDS Archaeology are pleased to promote a new
archive, Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/brugmann_var_2003/index.cfm

This study is based on a Sample of some 32,000 beads of the 5th to 8th
centuries, found at 106 sites in nine Anglo-Saxon regions. 56% of the
beads are made of amber, 43% of glass and 1% of other materials. Of the
13,000 or so glass beads, about two-thirds are assigned to one or other
of the types defined in Chapter 5 of the publication associated with
this archive. Distribution patterns suggest that some of the beads were
manufactured in Anglo-Saxon England, while others were imported from or
via the continent.

This digital archive consists of a downloadable spreadsheet containing
information on a sample of 32,000 beads from Anglo-Saxon graves.  The
research which created this archive was carried out with the help of a
post-doctoral research grant (1997/89) from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. And publication was assisted by English Heritage
and The Bead Study Trust.

Dr William Kilbride
Assistant Director
Archaeology Data Service

Dept of Archaeology
University of York
England YO1 7EP, UK

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