Record ID: SWYOR-EBF2F4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a glass bead of the Oldbury type, of late Iron Age or Roman date, 300BC to 400AD. The basal glass is dark blue in colour and has slightly raised knobs, each of which is decorated with a white swirl or spiral. Three of these knobs remain on this fragment. The fragment is 20.4mm long, 15.8mm wide and 8.5mm thick. It weighs 3.31gm. A fragment of an identical bead can be found on the database at reference YORM-7DAAE6.
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 5th June 2020
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Record ID: NCL-BDC011
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast glass bead of Iron Age to modern date. The bead is annular with a circular perforation, and D-shaped in section. There is no visible seam. The colour is an orange-pink reminiscent of coral, but the material is glass.
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SWYOR-709171
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a glass annular bead. Only about quarter of the bead survives. It is 15.3mm long, 7.2mm wide and 5.6mm thick. It is sub-circular in section and would have had a radius of about 9mm. The bead is made of dark blue glass and is decorated with five trailed then smoothed circumferential bands of white glass. There is also a pinkish substance on the side of the central hole. Beads with similar decoration on the database are LEIC-70C974 and LEIC-8B5E97. It is very difficult to date glass beads as they were used throughout the Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th June 2012
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