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BEAD
Unique ID: LVPL-9494B3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Small blue glass bead dating from the late Iron Age to the Roman period. It is a medium sized generic bead. This type is particularly common in the late Iron Age and the Roman Period. Some are also known on early Anglo-Saxon necklaces.
The bead is sub-spherical in plan with flattened ends and a central hole. The surface of the object has been chipped and scratched. The bead contains small white inclusions.The internal diameter of the perforation measures 3.45mm.
This type of bead can be classified as Guido Group 6 IVb (Guido 1978, 155ff.). Guido lists a parallel from Wilderspool. Guido and Welch 1999, 48, stress the fact that they occur, in all areas of Anglo-Saxon settlement and cannot be chronologically limited. In fact they discuss these as evidence for lower strata in society, to judge from a small scale study of their occurrence in grave assemblages.
M. Guido and M.Welch (1999),The Glass Beads of Anglo-Saxon England, c. AD 400- 700.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1066
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 6.45 mm
Weight: 0.5 g
Diameter: 10.15 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010
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Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: St. Helens (Metropolitan District)
District: St. Helens (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Billinge
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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