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BEAD
Unique ID: NLM-4E6988
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Glass bead. Glossy opaque black sub-spherical bead with aperture of diameter 3.2mm. The unblemished surface, regular form and small aperture suggest a recent date. Jewellery of jet, and its less costly mass-produced imitations in black glass, became particularly popular in fashionable emulation of Queen Victoria's prolonged mourning for her Prince Consort, Albert, who died in 1861. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1860-1900.
Diameter: 11.6mm, Thickness; 9.6mm, Weight: 1.83gms.
Class: sub-spherical
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1860
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 9.6 mm
Weight: 1.83 g
Diameter: 11.6 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 24th July 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM25986a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Northorpe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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