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Late Iron Age or Roman glass bead
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2013-01-24 14:28:22
Title
Late Iron Age or Roman glass bead
Description
English: Late Iron Age or Roman blue glass bead with a white trail. The bead is a bright but translucent blue. A white trail of opaque glass has been laid on the outside in a series of broad U shaped loops and marvelled flat. The central hole is slightly off centre and the wider side is also noticeably thicker. It varied from 5.5mm wide by 8.8mm thick at one side to 7.0mm wide by 10.9mm thick at the other. It is 21.7mm in diameter externally and weighs 5.50 grams.

While handmade beads with trailed decoration were popular in both the Late Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods the translucent bright blue shade is more popular in the Late Iron Age to Roman periods. Similar examples on the database include SUR-0EAD67, NARC-CEEB43 and CPAT-824C93. Guido (1978) describes this type as Wave-decorated beads in her publication 'The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods', classed as Group 5, type 10d style.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 300 BC and 410
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FindID: 541125
Old ref: SOM-143704
Filename: SOM-143704.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/413257
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/413257/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/541125
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Object location51° 03′ 28.08″ N, 3° 26′ 05.82″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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