Tyne and Wear HER(1495): Castle Garth, Anglo-Saxon bead - Details
1495
Newcastle
Castle Garth, Anglo-Saxon bead
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Monument
Findspot
Bead
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Find
During the 1929 excavations of the North of England Excavation Committee half of an Anglo-Saxon bead, 14 mm in diameter, was found "in a shaft near the top of the Dog Leap Stairs". For many years this was the only pre-Norman Conquest object found in Newcastle. The bead is of reddish brown glass, somewhat weathered, inset with marbled yellow spirals and translucent natural glass "eyes".
425060
563870
NZ425060563870
<< HER 1495 >> North of England Excavation Committee, 1931, Third Report: 1929-1930, 03-Apr
G.R. B. Spain, 1930, Newcastle upon Tyne Fort, Northumberland County History,XIII, 505
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1931, 4, IV (for 1929-30), 73
R. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Antiquities, no. 5