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Description: | Complete Roman jet bead. This bead is subtriangular in plan and wedge shaped in section, in that it narrows from the rounded, pointed end towards the flat end. It has slightly chamfered edges. There are two circular perforations through its thickness for attachment. The original surface is mostly intact, though it is cracked. There is a significant chunk missing from one face, above the perforations towards the pointed end. It is black in colour but with tiny traces of orange showing through some of the cracks. The bead is undecorated, but the top edge at the pointed end has been carved to appear ?pinched? in its very centre. It is 30.48mm long along its flat side, 14.56mm wide from the pointed side to broad side, 5.12mm thick and weighs 1.73g. Beads of this style date from the late 3rd and 4th centuries. A similar example, can be seen in Allason-Jones and Miket, 1984, number 7.38. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 280
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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