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Description: | A complete glass bead of uncertain date. The bead is circular in plan with a central circular perforation. The body is made of opaque cream glass and decorated on the outer surface with a trail of translucent, blue glass which forms a series of circles.The bead is 9.4 mm in diameter, 6.1 mm in thickness, and weighs 0.6 g. The diameter of the perforation is 3.4 mm.Glass beads are very difficult to date with any certainty without supporting contextual evidence or diagnostic features. The PAS database has numerous examples of blue and cream glass beads dating to the Iron Age and Roman period, but these all tend to have the blue as the base colour and white/cream as decoration (e.g. CAM-CF57E4 and SOM-143704).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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