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Description: | Just under half of an annular translucent light blue glass bead with white opaque swirling wave motif around the circumference. Guido's group 5, type A. According to Guido (1978), this style of polychrome bead was popular for a long period in the British Isles, appearing first in fourth or third century BC graves at Arras (Yorkshire). However, the size of this example (just under 22mm in diameter) and its colour (light as opposed to cobalt blue) suggest that this bead might belong to the post-Roman period (Guido 1978, p. 63-64).In Guido's later study of Anglo-Saxon glass beads (1999) the blue bead with white or cream wave becomes her type 6ix, and vary from translucent pale blue to translucent cobalt, dark blue and opaque blues.This type of bead does not seem to appear in Brugmann's later book on the glass beads found in early Anglo-Saxon graves(2004), although Guido lists a number of grave finds. This bead cannot therefore be closely dated.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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