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Roman bead
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-10-14 10:25:53
Title
Roman bead
Description
English: Fragment of a fired clay bead of probable Roman date. Its form can not be identified, but is likely to be cylindrical or globular. It is pink/orange in colour. The edges around the perforation are flat. The walls are mostly missing and none of the original surface survives. At one end the perforation is circular, on the other it is oblong. It is 5.9mm long, with a diameter of 6.8mm and the perforation has a diameter of 2.4-3.5mm. It weighs 0.18g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 43 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 78178
Old ref: ESS-E9B635
Filename: DSCN1713.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/39142
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/39142
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/78178
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