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BEAD
Unique ID: NLM-8B3CA1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Translucent dark blue glass bead. Annular bead with moulded aperture of diameter 4.3mm. A small pit or flaw appears at one point on the circumference. Such beads originate in the Late Iron Age, and remained popular through the Roman and Early Anglo-Saxon periods; blue annulars were the most common type of bead at Castledyke South, North Lincolnshire. Suggested date: Unknown, 300 BC-AD800.
Diameter: 9.3mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 0.49gms.
Class:
Blue Glass
Sub class: Annular
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 5.1 mm
Weight: 0.49 g
Diameter: 9.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM20747a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Binbrook
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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