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Glass beads.
Among finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered at The Meads, Sittingbourne, Kent.

This burial ground was excavated in late 2008 by Canterbury Archaeological Trust before the development of the site. The site dates to the 6th and…

AN00143138_001_l. Glass, olive green bag beaker with spiral and crimped vertical trails. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00029558_001_l. Glass drinking-horn, brownish-green. Plain cut rim, pointed tip, crimped collar below rim, looped trails around body. Restored.All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1980.269. Glass. 11.5 cm diameter. Blue glass bowl with trailed decoration, vertical loops towards the base and spirals around the neck. Probably a drinking vessel, and of Kentish origin. Found in a grave in 1847…

AN00032275_001_l. Glass, sherds from green claw beaker no.15, left after reconstruction. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

M/1992/6.
Pieces of an Anglo-Saxon green glass beaker. Beakers like these are called "claw beakers" because of the claw shaped pieces of glass used to decorate them. This beaker is also decorated with glass thread wound round and round its body. It…

M/1992/5.
Glass beaker, probably imported from France in the 5th century. It is decorated with glass thread, wound round and round the beaker below the rim. It is one of several Anglo-Saxon objects found by workmen when they were building Edridge…

Objects from the Ashmolean 'Anglo-Saxon Discovery' exhibition, 2005:
Cosmetic brush - Cassington, Toilet set - Cassington, Pottery spindlewhorl, Tweezers - Brighthampton, Knife - G5, Firesteel - Brighthampton, Pennanular brooch, Small long brooch, A…

Coloured beads discovered at an Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery at Sewerby, Yorkshire. These images were originally published as microfiche in 'An Anglo-Saxon Inhumation Cemetery at Sewerby, East Yorkshire' (York University Archaeological…