This small hoard was found in Orkney in 1886. It contained glass and amber beads, a spoon and a Celtic harness mount recycled ...

Among the array of over 200 graves goods in her grave was an amber bead necklace. The huge quantity of Baltic amber beads from the 6th century graves shows a continuing trade between the Cotswolds ...

It would have been quite a wealthy person as the brooch is from Ireland, the amber beads are from the Baltic and the spoon is a high status object as people mainly ate with their hands at this time.