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Description: | An incomplete glass bead of Iron Age date. The bead is a deep opaque blue in colour and circular in shape one third of it is missing due to an old break. It measures c25.3mm in diameter and its central circular perforation measures 10.6mm in diameter, it is 14.4mm in maximum height, but the height does vary down to 11.6mm. The outer face of the bead has rounded protrusions, large protrusions are arranged alternately with two smaller parallel protrusions. Each protrusion is further decorated with concentric circles of a paler almost white colour. This bead has been identified as Iron Age by Birte Brugmann, she also confirms that this type of bead occurs across Europe (Brugmann pers, comm 5/10/2005). A very similar bead has been found in Oundle, Northamptonshire see LIN-3A9556, it is also incomplete and has yellow concentirc circular decoration instead of white.
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