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Unique ID: HAMP-FB9144
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Late Iron Age or Roman (c.300 BC - AD 410) blue glass bead with a white trail. The bead is translucent and a bright royal blue in colour. A marvered white trail of opaque glass has been laid around the outside in a series of broad U shaped loops, with a shorter V shape at the point the ends of the trail meet (and presumably had run out of room). There is recent damage to the outside surface of the bead.
The bead measures 18.36mm in diameter (internal diameter of the central hole 7.73mm), 9.06mm in thickness and weighs 3.31g.
Cf. Guido, 1978; plate I, 10d.
Notes:
While handmade beads with trailed decoration were popular in both the Late Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods the translucent bright blue shade is more popular in the Late Iron Age to Roman periods. Similar examples on the database include SOM-143704, SUR-0EAD67, NARC-CEEB43 and CPAT-824C93. Guido (1978) describes this type as Wave-decorated beads in her publication 'The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods', classed as Group 5 (A).
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Class: Guido Group 5; Type 10d
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: Circa AD 410
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 9.06 mm
Weight: 3.31 g
Diameter: 18.36 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 22nd August 2014
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Other reference: Winchester Museums Entry Form 3822
4 Figure: TL7936
Four figure Latitude: 51.99359622
Four figure longitude: 0.60576577
1:25K map: TL7936
1:10K map: TL73NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Guido, M. | 1978 | The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods in Britain and Ireland | London | Thames and Hudson | Plate I | 10d |