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Description: | Spherical, annular, cobalt blue glass bead with a trailed white glass paste pattern and a central hole with a diameter of 4 mm.
White opaque glass threads have been coiled around the blue glass bead and then marvered. The white threads were then pulled upwards to create this wave pattern.
The bead compares in size and shape to an example in Crummy (1983) on page 33, Fig.34, No.617, in colour to No.562, and in style of decoration to Fig.33, Nos.543 & 546 which both have marvered trails and are dated to the Roman period.
Roman beads in stratified local contexts are rare, but example of dark blue glass beads have been found at Trethurgy, St. Austell and are illustrated in Quinnell (2004) on page 92, Fig.52, Nos. 19 & 21, which are dated to the 4th-6th centuries AD.
Another Roman bead using the same method of decoration was found at Carvossa, Probus which is illustrated in CAJ No.26 (1987) on page 131, Figure 11, No.6 and is dated from the 1st to the 6th century AD. | 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: | 1
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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