Record ID: WILT-88EB56
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably Early Early-Medieval (c.400-600) opaque polychrome glass bead, conical in shape with a pronounced mid-rib around the centre. It is now a turquoise blue in colour with a possibly originally red contrasting colour in spiral trails around. Measures 6.68mm in length, max.7.45mm in diameter (min.c.5mm at either end) and weighs 0.38g. The central piercing is c.3mm in diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-A07CB5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Early-Medieval green glass bead in the shape of a 5-armed star with terracotta-coloured (probably glass) tips. It is c.12x12mm. Object mounted so not possible to weigh. Bead seen in the past by Margaret Guido. Comparable to one from Wallingford in the Ashmolean Museum. 5th century in date.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS1951
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon reticella glass bead, cylindrical or drum-shaped with two and three layers of colourless translucent, opaque red (“terracotta”) and opaque yellow glass arranged to form a herringbone pattern. In Guido’s (1999) book, Schedule, beads of this shape and decoration come under 8xviia; in Brugmann's classification (2004) they are called "reticella". Brugmann dates them to her Group A2b, 530-580 AD. Height 13mm, diameter 16mm, diameter of perforation 4-6mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2234
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?PS Glass bead, tubular, off-white colour, dia.9mm, height 6mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK OXBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.