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Description: | Translucent pale blue-green (aqua) glass bead of uncertain date. The bead appears to be oval in plan and oval in section giving a globular shape with slightly flattened top and bottom. There is a circular hole through the centre with a slight chip to one side. Spiralling indented lines are visible on the end and sides where the glass was wound around a pontil to make the bead. The glass indents into the the holes at the end visible from the photo. The hole is 3mm in diameter. The bead is 10mm long and 12mm in diameter.The spiral lines suggest the bead was hand made by winding but the indenting around the hole at the end may have been formed by stabbing the hole to reshape it after the pontil was removed.. Pale blue beads are found in the Roman period, those examples are usually globular, wider in diameter than they are long. However Guido (1978:70) comments that stray examples of such beads cannot be dated with any certainty as similar examples were made up until modern times and were much used for lace bobbins.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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