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Description: | Polished carnelian or chalcedonic silica bead, octagonal in plan and section and sub-rectangular in profile, tapering slightly to one end. Its shape suggests that it was more likely used as pendant, with it tapering at one end only, even though the perforation runs the length of the bead.Such silica occurs as nodules in chalk and limestone but could have reached Cornwall as erratics. Ashbee (1999) illustrates a chalcedony bead on page 71, Fig.34, No.4 which is very similar in dimensions and colour and found on the Isles of Scilly at Halangy Down, a site which dates from about 400 BC to AD 600, but the bead cannot be stratigraphically dated.Carlyon (1987) illustrates a similar stone bead from Carvossa, Probus on page 131, Fig.11, No.7, which is thought to be a pendant or amulet, because of its shape, but it does not date from the period of the site, which is Roman.Faceted agate was used from the late 17th century for chain links as part of a setting on a pendant, from the Cheapside Hoard in London, for example. During the 18th century, agate continued to be popular for settings on buckles and brooches, and into the 19th century for seals and cravat pins.
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