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melon bead
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2003-08-26 16:13:16
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melon bead
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English: Melon bead made from faience. A melon bead is a globular bead, usually quite large, with grooves around the outside running parallel to the perforation. Faience is a little like glass - it is a mix of soda, lime and quartz - and it has a surface glaze. Here the core is a matt opaque dirty white colour, and there are fragments of a bright blue, almost turquoise glaze surviving in eight of the 21 grooves. The bead is slightly irregular; its dimensions are 22-24 mm in diameter, 18 mm long parallel to the perforation, perforation 8-9 mm in diameter. Faience is a very ancient invention and was used in Egypt as well as in Roman beads.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 43 and 200
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FindID: 38087
Old ref: SF7240
Filename: EDNsf879sf7240.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/7471
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/7471/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/38087
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