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Bead of uncertain date
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2012-09-14 10:47:05
Title
Bead of uncertain date
Description
English: Translucent pale blue (aqua) glass bead of uncertain date. The bead appears to be sub-oval in plan with one rounded end. The other end is mostly missing to a break across the bead but appears to similarly flattened. The sides are irregular as it has been formed of a trail of glass and not rolled to smooth the edges of the trails. This has left spiralling indents in the sides. The glass flares out slightly around the holes at each end. It has a rough sided hole 2.3mm in diameter running though it. It is 10.8mm long and 8.5mm in diameter and weighs 0.9 grams.

Irregularity in the shape suggest it was wound but the slight flaring at each end mayhave been formed by removing the pontil or by stabbing the hole to reshape it after the pontil was removed.. Although pale blue beads are found in the Roman period, those examples are usually more globular, wider in diameter than they are long. 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.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 43 and 1900
Accession number
FindID: 520506
Old ref: SOM-1EB887
Filename: SOM-1EB887.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/396900
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/396900/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/520506
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