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BEAD
Unique ID: WAW-9A9515
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete glass bead probably dating to the Roman period, circa AD50-400. The bead is broadly spherical with both sides flattening around the perforation. The bead is an even light blue colour. It has a centrally located longitudinal perforation with parallel sides. The perforation has an approximate diameter of 3.3mm. The bead is in fair condition with a matte surface probably caused by movement in the plough soil. The damage is not new. This bead is from a collection of light blue, mid blue and white mostly glass beads found in the same field. The bead is dated as probably Roman owing to other Roman finds retrieved from nearby. However, beads of this style were used from the Iron Age to at least the Medieval periods and cannot be dated with certainty.
Diameter: 8.99mm. Height: 6.34mm. Weight: 0.63g
Comparable beads are recorded in Ellis: 2000, p185, fig 4.47.
Ref: Ellis, P., The Roman Baths and Macellum at Wroxeter: Excavations by Graham Webster 1955-85. English Heritage. 2000
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 6.34 mm
Weight: 0.63 g
Diameter: 8.99 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013 - Sunday 19th May 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 20
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Bromsgrove (District)
Parish or ward: Hagley (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO9382
Four figure Latitude: 52.43592792
Four figure longitude: -2.10439278
1:25K map: SO9382
1:10K map: SO98SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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