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Roman faience bead
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, 2015-09-02 15:50:47
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Roman faience bead
Description
English: A complete Roman "melon" bead made from faience. The surface is worn and encrusted, but the turquoise colour can still be seen. The bead is sub-spherical. It is decorated with 21 raised vertical ribs, some oblique. The central aperture has an internal diameter of 6.8mm. The bead is Roman, probably dating from the 1st to 2nd century AD. A close parallel is known from Castleford (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1998, page 185, no.55).

Melon beads form just under half of the total number of beads found in Castleford. Examples of faience are much more common than those of translucent blue glass. They were used in Britain from the conquest until a decline in use in the later 2nd century. Johns (1996, 101-102) suggests that glass melon beads are know to have been made in London, and probably elsewhere in Britain, but that they are a type known Empire-wide.

The bead is 15.9mm tall, 19.5mm diameter and is 5.25g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 43 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 738983
Old ref: SWYOR-70C99B
Filename: PAS_2611_bead.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/531511
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/531511/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/738983
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 15 November 2020)
Object location54° 00′ 01.44″ N, 1° 24′ 45.07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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