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Description: | Glass annular bead of light, blue-green translucent glass, sub-circular in plan and ovoid in profile, with a large uneven aperture of about 5 mm in diameter that appears to have been cut away by hand, or wrapped around a rod that would not have been quite cylindrical.Similar to Roman beads recorded in HESH-1CE5C1 and BUC-89BC47.Crummy (1983) illustrates similar examples of light green / blue glass beads excavated from the Roman period levels at Colchester on page 32, Fig.33, Nos.549 & 553, which are dated from the mid 1st century to the late 4th century .Locally, a similarly shaped but paler glass bead was found during the excavations at Carvossa, Probus, illustrated in Carlyon (1987) on page 131, Fig.11, No.3, which is dated form the late Roman period.
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