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BEAD

Unique ID: SF4739

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Cylindrical glass bead with rounded ends, made of semi-translucent pale aquamarine or turquoise glass. It is 14 mm long and 11 mm in diameter, with a 4 mm perforation. Dating this bead has proved difficult. Cylindrical shapes are not found among pre-Roman beads. No parallel can be found in M. Guido's Prehistoric and Romano-British Glass Beads (1978). Catherine Johns of the British Museum thinks it is not Roman. This leaves early Anglo-Saxon as the most likely option, but it is an unusual colour. Leslie Webster of the British Museum has seen it and has suggested that the unusual colour may derive from the re-use of a glass tessera from a Roman mosaic. If it is early Anglo-Saxon, it will probably date from the sixth to early eighth centuries AD.

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Date from: AD 500
Date to: AD 720

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 14 mm
Weight: 2.32 g
Diameter: 11 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 24th September 2000

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Glass

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK CULPHO

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
Discovery circumstances: Finder donated bead to Ken Willcox
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 23 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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