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Description: | A cylindrical glass bead of probable Roman date. The bead takes the form of a ring-shaped piece of glass with flat upper and lower surfaces and an off-centre circular aperture. The glass is of a transluscent blueish-green colour and contains a black spiral. The surface is heavily pitted, probably due to the presence of numerous bubbles. The bead measures 18.1mm in diameter, 6.9mm thick and weighs 2.5g. Birgitta Hoffmann (pers. comm.) identifies this bead as Guido's type 6iia (see Guido 1978). According to Hoffmann, beads of this form occur throughout the Roman period and are also known in pre-Roman, Iron Age contexts such as the cemetery at King Harry Lane, St. Albans (Stead and Rigby 1989); they are, however, most common on sites of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, both military and civilian. It is suggested that such beads were probably made from recycled bottle glass. It is uncertain as to whether they were all intended for personal ornamentation and they may also have served as horse harness decorations.
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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