Record ID: NLM-9C7587
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bracelet fragment. Moulded D-section segment from a bracelet of translucent cobalt blue glass with comma-shaped trails of [now] paler blue glass following a medial ridge, and possibly with a band of darker tint within the metal of the band. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 100BC-AD200 Length: 19.0mm, Width: 9mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 1.48gms, Estimated internal diameter: 50mm
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-437253
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of unknown date. The bead is sub-spherical with flattened ends and a central hole. The bead is made of blue glass and is in fair condition, with a pitted surface. Beads of this style were used from the Iron Age until the medieval period and beyond and so are impossible to date. This blue colour was popular in the 1st-3rd centuries, but could also be from an Anglo Saxon context.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fridaythorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-549160
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular light blue glass bead with an off centre sub-circular hole. The bead is broadly bun / globular shaped being sub-circular in plan and D shaped in cross section. It measures 21.0mm in diameter is 8.9mm wide and maximum of 7.6mm thick (from central hole to outer edge). The bead weighs 5.01 grams. The central hole is irregular and slightly faceted: it measures 7.2mm x 7.7mm. The bead is a light matt blue colour; when it is held up to the light it is translucent and has a number of small air bubbles and flecks present. The bead has also been slightly scratched and damaged b…
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 5th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Under Penyard', grid reference and parish protected.

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: LIN-6BCDF7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small glass bead dating to the late Iron Age. The bead is of Guido's class 5 'Hanging Langford' type. The bead is circular in plan and the hoop is oval in cross-section. The glass is off-white in colour and almost clear, with patches of yellow on either side.
Created on: Monday 31st January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-3F5394
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Early Medieval glass bead, 20mm in diameter, 9mm wide and 6mm thick. The object respresents half of a glass bead. The glass is largely opaque and has visible thin stripes varying from almost opaque pale blue to nearly clear blue/green.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-824C93
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a good example of a blue glass annular bead and given the deep cobolt blue of the main body of the ring and its diameter at 20mm, it is probably from the Roman period. The glass has been decorated with an opaque white wavy line and this is typical of the type (wave-decorated beads) as described in Margaret Guido's 'The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods'. In particular, this example fits within the group 5 type 10d style. The central hole is a little irregular and is slightly off centre. The diameter of the hole is 9mm.
Created on: Friday 29th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-892427
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman green glass bead. The bead is hexagonal in section and sub-rectangular in plan. One terminal is broken on one edge, but the complete edge appears to be original. The perforation through the bead appears to be a pointed oval shape. The glass is a matte rich mid green colour. The bead measures 11.69mm long, and 4.91mm wide. It weighs 0.5g. Sally Worrell (PAS Finds Advisor) has identified the bead as probably dating to the 4th century when green hexagonal beads were most popular.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
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Record ID: GLO-5864C6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead diameter 12mm, height 12mm, weight 2.6g, diameter of hole 3mm by 2mm. Creamy glass The walls are uneven, the base is flat and the top is abraded. The glass has a light creamy colour with no inclusions or bubbles. A seam runs down one side showing that the molten glass would have been coiled around a core. Similar examples have been found in Early Medieval contexts such as the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Lechlade, in Gloucestershire. Although they are known from Iron Age and Roman contexts such as those found at Dragonby in North Lincolnshire (May, 1996, 321-322). Theref…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-7DAAE6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Oldbury Type blue bun-shaped glass bead with only two white swirls surviving.
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

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: CORN-E73100
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead, circular in plan and oval in profile, with a large off-set circular hole and a crack which runs through one side of the bead. The glass is translucent and pale green colour. Similar beads have been found in Iron Age and Romano-British contexts in Cornwall, such as two from Trevelgue Head, an Iron Age hillfort near Newquay, on display at the Royal Cornwall Museum, and about to be published by English Heritage and Cornwall Council in a monograph edited by Jacqueline Nowakowski and Henrietta Quinnell in section 8.4.1, Nos.1 (Acc. No: 1982.13.18.3) and 2 (Acc. No: 1982.12.18…
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-333795
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass cobalt blue bead, circular in plan and oval in profile and section with a large offset circular hole. One side of the bead is thicker, in height, than the other by about 0.5 mm. There is a slight spur on the edge of one side of the perforation, suggesting that the glass has been rolled on a central rod, and pulled off while still hot. Irregular beads made of this dark blue glass have been found in Iron Age, Roman and Post-Roman contexts. There is a very similar example (2005.26.14) excavated from Castle Dore on display in the Iron Age case at the Royal Cornwall Museum. Q…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-C74A78
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Approximately 40% of a blue glass bead. Probably Iron Age. Opaque cobalt blue glass with a white wavy line around the circumference of the bead. 15mm outer diameter. 7mm inner diameter. 7mm thick.
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-F24284
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bead or possible pin head, probably made of glass and dating from the Late Iron Age to Early Roman period. The bead is broadly spherical, with three protruding bosses, and a circular-sectioned perforation extends through it. A segment of the bead is missing due to old breaks, and the cavity thus created has a pitted reddish surface. The 'glass' is dark brown, and the bosses are decorated with incised spirals. The patterns are reminiscent of the painted white swirls on dark blue glass beads of Oldbury type (see PAS record YORYM-7DAAE6). The object measures 8.87mm in diame…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF2811
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Translucent blue glass bead; D-shaped section of irregular width 3-5mm, fractured across one point; central circular perforation 8mm in diameter with working striations on flat inside surface; simple glass beads of this nature are impossible to date precisely and could have been in use at anytime between the Late Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon periods.
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK KETTLEBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4884
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just under half of a large bead made from translucent deep blue glass with a rather carelessly inlaid trail of twisted cable. The cable appears to have been made from white, dark blue and a slightly lighter blue, and is 3 mm wide. The surviving inlay makes one complete and half of a second swag, with the cable being stretched out and crumpled at the bottom of the complete swag. Original diameter c. 25 mm, diameter of perforation c. 4 mm. Twist-decorated beads are known from the late Iron Age/early Roman period and the early Anglo-Saxon period (7th century). There are good parallel…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID2354
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
The glass bead has a navy coloured background with white concentric rings in three pairs. Only a fragment remains of the outer edge and base.
Created on: Friday 14th July 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STAFFORDSHIRE LICHFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-6490D1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age or Roman globular blue glass bead The bead is plain and made of opaque pale blue glass with a diameter of 10.28mm and a maximum thickness of 6.59mm. The bead has divergent sides and has a minimum thickness of 5.75mm. The central perforation has a diameter of 3.47mm. The bead has a crack running through both sides and weighs 0.8g.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.