Pennywell, Anglo-Saxon bead

HER Number

35

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Pennywell, Anglo-Saxon bead

Place

Pennywell

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Bead

General Period

EARLY MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Early Medieval 410 to 1066

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A possible 6th century A.D. Anglo-Saxon red and white bead found in a garden at Plawsworth Square, Pennywell, some years before 1965. The information on this find is derived from a Sunderland Museum record which also suggests that the bead was retained by the museum.

Easting

435370

Northing

555570

Grid Reference

NZ435370555570

Sources

<< HER 35 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1977, Possible 6th cent. Anglo-Saxon bead