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bead necklace

Accession Number NWHCM : 1950.178(6)

Description

Necklace, Early Bronze Age amber bead necklace, restrung by the excavator, found with a male skeleton in a Chieftain's burial group, of a type typical of the Wessex culture and buried in circa 1500 BC, at Little Cressingham

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Many burial mounds belonging to the Bronze Age, which are today known as round barrows, have been recorded across Norfolk. Around 1,200 examples survive; many as flattened earthworks in the form of ring-ditches. Such burials often occur together to form cemeteries, including one such group at Little Cressingham, in south-west Norfolk, near the Icknield Way.

Creation Date 1500 BC
Material amber
Department Archaeology : Norwich Castle Museum

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