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Description: | An Iron Age copper-alloy cruciform bead from a beaded torc. The bead exhibits a flat plate with a central circular 10.45 mm diameter aperture and four peripheral equidistant projections of varying size, each having a convex outer face and flat inner face. The bead is in good condition with a smooth green/silver patina.Comparable with beads on a beaded torc found at Benwell, Northumberland, now in University Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. Collection 1956 5.5A and with the Perdiswell Torc, Worcester, now in the British Museum. Museum number: 1993,0103.1.Published in MacGregor's Catalogue of Celtic Art in North Britain 1976, no. 198.Diameter 21.9 mm and 23.97 mm, width of projections 7.63 mm, 5.82 mm, 7.17 mm and 7.83 mm; thickness 1.29 mm, weight 3.9 grams.Cf. GLO-EEB7E3 for a similar example on the database.
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