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Bead
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Sussex Archaeological Society, Liz Wilson, 2004-11-19 13:48:01
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Bead
Description
English: A glass bead, made from four different colours of glass (blue, white, red, yellow). The bead is a cylinder with straight sides. It was made by mixing two strands of blue and white glass, and then wrapping the glass around a thin metal rod (the hole left by the rod has a diameter of 3.2mm); the glass mixture was then dragged this way and that around the rod, to mix up the patterns on the surface. Tiny blobs of yellow glass were then added fairly uniformly around the sides; onto each blob was added an even smaller one of red glass. The whole bead was then heated and rolled on a smooth surface to flatten the sides. The colours are still bright, although the surface has lost its glossy shine. A small part of the outer layer of the glass has come away near one end. This item clearly required a lot of skill and effort to produce, and would therefore form part of a costly necklace (or other decoration). The date of this piece is unknown, but it could have been produced at any time between the Iron Age and the Saxon period, with the Roman period or thereafter being more likely.
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Sussex
Date between 500 and 1100
Accession number
FindID: 80850
Old ref: SUSS-B853D4
Filename: 3-357a.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/43359
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/43359/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/80850
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current13:34, 24 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 13:34, 24 February 2017868 × 1,093 (586 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, create missing image based on cross-ref check. FindID 80850, ImageID 43356, batch page 22354

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