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Bead of uncertain date
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2012-06-19 12:30:27
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Bead of uncertain date
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English: Opaque turquoise blue glass bead of uncertain date. The bead is oval in plan and circular in section with slight rims around the holes. It has a rough sided hole c.2.4mm in diameter running though it. It is 8.9mm long and 9.2mm in diameter and weighs 0.89 grams.

Irregularity in the shape and a spiralling grain suggest it was made by being wound on a pontil. Although turquoise blue beads were popular in the Roman and Early Medieval period, those examples are usually more globular, distinctly wider in diameter than they are long. Guido (1978:70) comments that stray examples of such beads cannot be dated with any certainty as similar examples were made up until modern times and were much used for lace bobbins.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 43 and 1900
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FindID: 507626
Old ref: SOM-9C47B7
Filename: SOM-9C47B7.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/385958
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/385958/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/507626
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