Record ID: STAFFS-290565
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone bead, barrel shaped with concave ends.
Created on: Monday 8th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2B1E44
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Worn biconical spacer bead from a necklace, made from a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering and left unbeaded. This singleton bead belongs to a growing family of necklace components, made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It is best compared to the spacer beads on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), cat. no.13), which dates from the second half of the 7th century. The Desborough necklace is strung with a small, centrally …
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rowington', grid reference and parish protected.