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Description: | A Roman to Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) glass 'sunflower' bead. Probably a 4th or 5th century Continental import. This bead is circular in plan. It is convex on the upper face and largely flat on the lower face. However, the lower face undulates slightly in places. The main part is very dark, almost black and is embellished with creamy white ?glass. This embellishment consists of seven evenly spaced creamy white arched ?glass swirls on the sides. Below these there is a single creamy white circumferential line. On the upper face there are three creamy white circumferential lines which are joined in places. The lower face is plain. It has a central vertical perforation which is about 7.0mm in diameter. Around each end of the perforation, on the upper and lower faces, damage has occurred and there has been a small loss of material. Where this loss has occurred, the inside of the bead appears to be very brittle. The bead could have been buried or lost at any time from the 4th to the 6th century.The dark glass is much shinier than the creamy white material.Height: 16.3mm; diameter: 34.4mm. Weight: 27.91g.A similar bead has been recorded from a late Roman grave at Stour Street, Canterbury (Brugmann 2004: 30, fig. 111a-b). The main characteristics of these beads are that they are made of dark glass, are short (i.e. the diameter is substantially larger than the thickness along the perforation) and that they are decorated on one face only, not on the (usually flat) lower faceThe recorder is indebted to Birgitte Brugmann and Helen Geake for their assistance.
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