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Description: | A blue glass bead of unknown date. The bead is made from translucent royal blue glass with small bubbles visible in the structure and a small area of lighter blue glass. One end of the bead is flatter than the other, and the more rounded end is higher on one side than the other. The asymetrical form comes from the winding process during manufacture (Hoffmann, pers. comm. 28/7/15). The bead is not decorated, but there are chips and scratches in the glass dispersed in a pattern of circumferential bands, and also with more damage at the ends. The bead is 12.8mm diameter, 9.9mm tall and 2.16g. The central hole is slightly irregular, but circular at the rounded end, and 3.5mm diameter, but oval and 4.4mm wide at the flatter end.Blue glass was used from the Bronze Age to the 20th century and blue glass beads are often impossible to date, though they tend not to be this large in the Bronze Age (Birgitta Hoffmann, pers comm, 13/3/15). 20th century examples are published in Torben Sode (1996), Anatolske glasperler. Copenhagen: Forlaget Thot.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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