Beads are made of various materials from stones to metals to clay.  They are also various sizes and styles.  Most common forms are spheres, lentoids, and cylindrical. 

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
11855 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Barrels & lentoids of gold, lapis & carnelian, with flat carnelian pendant. (for order see Field Notes).
11856 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Double conoids of gold & lapis (strung in sets: see Field Notes).
11873 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads. 1 very long carnelian bugle. 1 equally long of wood & 1 (facetted) of lapis.
11878 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 2 Carnelian & 1 gold bugles & small Lapis balls, making a frontlet.
11884 (none) 1929,1017.328 (none) Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept.
11892 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very slender bugles, 3 of lapis, 3 of gold, & a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant.
11894 30-12-610 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids & lapis beads of various sorts, carnelian rings & jasper bugles. For order see Field Notes.
11900.1 (none) 1929,1017.261 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Small carnelian lentoids and lapis balls.
11900.2 (none) 1929,1017.262 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Small carnelian lentoids and lapis balls.
11910 30-12-562 (none) (none) Beads. Large double conoids of electrum and carnelian and flat lentoids of carnelian and gold: all from one string on the chest of the central figure in the domed chamber.
11911 (none) 1929,1017.248 (none) Beads. Gold balls (hollow) and balls of light yellow carnelian.
11930 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis & silver double conoids (see Field Notes)
11935 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis double conoids, carnelian bugles, carnelian rings, small lapis balls, and silver beads (decayed) See Field Notes.
11939 (none) 1929,1017.302 (none) Beads. Mixed sorts = see field notes
11964.1 30-12-653 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Part of Frontlet (?) 2 lapis & 1 gold facetted lentoid beads: (perhaps worn on silver chains which have disappeared)
11964.2 (none) 1929,1017.402 (none) [.1-.2] Part of Frontlet (?) 2 lapis & 1 gold facetted lentoid beads: (perhaps worn on silver chains which have disappeared)
11971 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis & silver. Double conoids and lentoids.
11974A (none) (none) (none) [A] Beads. Double conoids & lentoids of gold & lapis. [B-C] 2 earrings, spiral coils of silver wire.
11975A (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) = set of 4, 2 carnelian & 2 lapis lentoids; (B)= set of very small lapis & some carnelian; [C] with them1 earring, spiral coil of silver wire.
11975B (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) = set of 4, 2 carnelian & 2 lapis lentoids; (B)= set of very small lapis & some carnelian; [C] with them1 earring, spiral coil of silver wire.
11984 30-12-590 (none) (none) Beads. A few, small balls of lapis & carnelian & gold-plated copper.
11989 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A few only of blue-glazed frit, small lentoids & 1 large barrel bead.
11994 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis diamonds & balls, & some silver forming a bracelet. Also, 2 carnelian bugles.
11998 30-12-591 (none) (none) Beads, a few only, Carnelian balls and diamonds
12001 (none) (none) (none) Beads. From a frontlet. 2 lapis & 1 gold facetted lentoids & 1 small carnelian bugle.

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