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Roman glass melon bead
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-10-14 10:21:55
Title
Roman glass melon bead
Description
English: A complete translucent dark blue glass melon bead. There are seven unevenly spaced vertical grooves. Light chipping at one end are indicative of abrasion with another bead. The other end has no signs of wear at the perforation. There are two large ‘pits’ on the external surface which are the result of air bubbles in the glass. The bead is 8.1mm high and weighs 1.54g. It has a diameter of 12.4mm and the perforation has a diameter of 3.5mm.

Sally Worrell adds: Glass melon beads are present in Europe in the pre-Roman period, and 16 were found in a La Tene burial at the Wetwang Slack cemetery, Yorkshire (Dent 1982, 445-6 fig.7). They are found in many 1st and early 2nd century contexts and appear most frequently on Flavian sites, including the Agricolan supply base at Red House, Corbridge (Charlesworth 1959, 166 fig. 22; 1979, 59 nos. 17-8) and Ribchester, Lancashire (Price and Cottam 2000, 28 nos. 198-205). Roman glass melon beads were made in a range of sizes, although they are frequently large and none appear to be as small as some of the smallest faience beads.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 1 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 78036
Old ref: ESS-E50B53
Filename: DSCN1684.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/39115
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/39115
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/78036
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