Record ID: WMID-4BAD77
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Published
A complete sub-cylindrical decorated polychrome glass bead, with flattened ends (diameter: 9.1mm; thickness: 7.7mm; weight: 0.87g), dating to the Early Medieval period, probably 6th-8th century AD. The dark blue/black bead seems to have been splashed with a range of colours after the initial monochrome bead was made, including yellow, red, grey/blue and off-white. These colours have been applied irregularly and in no distinctive pattern. The hole which is slightly off-centre in the bead (created by a metal rod when the bead was made) is also of irregular shape, with the diameter being …
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
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