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Description: | A Roman glass counter. It is in dark green glass and has a plano-convex section. It is 15mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness.
Sally Worrell adds: Plano-convex glass counters are common finds on sites of all periods of Roman occupation, but are most closely associated with 1st and 2nd century occupation and are particularly common on military sites. The plano-convex examples were produced by simply dropping a small blob of hot glass onto a flat surface. These objects may have been used for accounting purposes and in board-games.
Monochrome counters are commonly opaque white or dark, appearing black glass, but other colours such as purple, blue/green, dark green, yellow/brown and yellow/green examples are also known. | 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: | 43
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | David Williams | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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