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Description: | A complete biconical gold bead from a 7th-century necklace. It is hollow, and made from a single length of coiled unbeaded gold wire with separate lengths of beaded wire wrapped around the terminals. A separate short length of beaded wire is also attached vertically to the centre of the front of the bead; this may originally have continued all around the centre of the bead.Biconical gold wire beads date to the second half of the 7th century (Geake 1997, 43). Other examples on the PAS database include one from Rowington, Warwickshire (PAS-2B1E44; 2002T95); one from North Down, Kent (KENT-7009B3; 2003T207; Treasure Annual Report 2003, no.94, p.72, fig.94.2, p.214); one from Burmington, Warwickshire (PAS-CF6701; 2012T145) and one from Witton, Norfolk (NMS-6F95B0; 2013T15).They were worn on high-status necklaces, such as the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (Webster and Backhouse (eds) 1991, 28, fig 13), which dates from the second half of the 7th century. The Desborough necklace is strung with an alternating sequence of gold and cabochon garnet pendants, gold 'bullae' and biconical gold wire spacer beads. At the centre is an equal-armed cross. Interestingly a gold and garnet pendant which would appear to be contemporary with this bead was found nearby (SF-40EE34) and may well be an element from the same necklace.
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