Description

Summary: 6 bi-conical shale beads (found with 13 barrel shaped amber beads STHEAD.50) from an amber and shale necklace found with a secondary (?) cremation in bowl barrow Upton Lovell G2e, excavated by William Cunnington

Research results

Six Bronze Age bi-conical shale beads originally thought to have been excavated by William Cunnington from the 'Golden Barrow' (Wilsford G2e). A large number of amber beads and amber spacers from a complex necklace were found in this burial, and similar necklaces are known of jet and shale, however these beads are no longer thought to belong with this grave group, and they may have been mixed in soon after discovery.