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Description: | An Early Bronze Age jet or shall terminal bead from a spacer plate ornament, c.2000 BC. The bead is trapezoidal in shape and sub-rectangular in cross section. There is a circular drilled perforation at the pointed terminal though which single thread would be attached. The are three further circular perforations on the reverse surface which travel though the bead at approximately 45 degrees and emerge on the bottom edge. A separate thread would be attached to each hole allowing three strings of beads to emerge from the spacer bead. The upper surface is decorated with lines of punched circular depressions forming a triangular design; the design seems to be indicating where the strings meet the attachment hole. There is damage around three of the attachment hole which could be a sign of ware.Sheridan et al (2002 p 816) suggest that the arrangement of spacer bead ornaments appear to copy that of Irish gold lineal ornaments in their crescent shape. In a personal comment Catherine Frieman from the University of Nottingham, suggests that this could be the only known example of this type of bead from south east England. The closest known examples are from East Anglia and Whiltshire.The bead is 44.7mm long, 26.2mm wide, 6.6mm thick and weighs 5.6 grams.Sheridan A, Davis, Clark and Redvers Jones, 2002. Investigating Jet and Jet like artefacts from prehistoric Schotland: the National Museums of Scotland Project. Antiquity Vol 76 p 812-25
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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