Record ID: DENO-042D30
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Amber bead; Small, circular, 'doughnut-shaped' bead of bright orange amber. Surface mostly pitted and matt. Chipped in one area, showing the bright, glassy texture of the amber. Weight 0.91g, Diameter 13.11mm, Thickness 9.36mm (6.88mm min) Unknown date - amber beads are very difficult to date. They are reasonably commonly known from Bronze Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval contexts.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-31E024
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a globular translucent dark blue glass bead.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Malling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-E5A663
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bead. The bead is biconical with a hexagonal section and a circular hole running lengthways through the centre.
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-E5B8F1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman lead bead. The bead is biconical with circular section. The lengthways perforation appears to have been circular but is now distorted.
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-FEEC01
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Redcar and Cleveland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Spherical blue glass bead of the Roman or Early Medieval period. This sky blue colour was popular in the 1st-3rd centuries, but could also be from an Anglo Saxon context.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-3BCBF4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead which is possibly Roman. The bead is annular and is D shaped in section with a circular hole in the centre. On one face the centre is depressed, but the other face is flat. A short spur projects from one edge of the bead. The glass contains faint lines that radiate from the spur as if the glass was pulled up to form it, or was poured down from it. The spur narrows from the edge of the bead to the end which is flat and truncated. The bead measures 19.3mm long, 18.1mm wide and 6.4mm thick. The glass is opaque and is very pale blue in colour. Annular beads were popular in th…
Created on: Saturday 16th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-950B47
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medium-sized crudely cast copper-alloy bead, surface showing reddish/dark patina. Metal beads of this type are rarely found in Medieval, Roman or earlier contexts which is why this unprovenanced find probably dates to the Post-Medieval or Modern period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SUSS-3CEEF2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular bead. It measures 14.8mm in diameter x 6.5mm and weighs 2.6g. The bead has a dark greyish-green patina. Much of the original surface has been lost. It is decorated with an incised line close to the edge of the bead, arranged in a spiral, on both the upper and lower surfaces. The object possibly dates to the Bronze Age, circa 2150-800BC. But a more modern date (maybe medieval can not be ruled out).
Created on: Sunday 22nd July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-61E555
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular bead. It measures 13.4mm in diameter x 7.8mm and weighs 6.1g. The bead has a dark greyish-green patina. Much of the original surface has been lost. It is undecorated. The object possibly dates to the Bronze Age, circa 2150-800 BC. But a more modern date (maybe medieval can not be ruled out).
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9FA3C3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a glass bead, of unknown date but possibly Roman. It is a circular light blue opaque glass bead, 21.16mm in diameter, and 9.9mm in height. The hole drilled through the centre is 9.35mm in diameter. The bead weighs 5.33g. Roman sherds have been discovered nearby, SF-890B63, which might suggest a Roman date for this bead.
Created on: Friday 27th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-248CB1
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 bone beads of probable prehistoric date. The beads are rather rudimentary; though well polished, they are undecorated, subcylindrical, and asymmetrical in form. It is difficult to determine the skeletal element from which they were made; the subcylindrical form could be manufactured from the phalanges of a large mammal, the longbones (e.g. metapodials) of a smaller mammal, or the tines of a deer antler. However, the disorganised microstructure of the objects, together with the presence of secondary osteones (visible under low powered microscopy) shows that postcranial bone was used…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-3332B0
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead, possibly dating to the early medieval period -therefore Anglo Saxon. The bead is circular in shape and has a hole through the centre. The bead measures 19.82mm x 8.45mm. It weighs 3.84g. The bead would have been made by melting glass into a crucible. Then an iron rod would have been used to gather the glass. The glass was then trickled onto the rod, forming the central hole and then it would have been rolled, to smooth the outer surface. The manufacture of glass beads is exampled fully in Leahy (2003) see reference below. The bead is blue, with a light blue spiral into th…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST SUSSEX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-4CC9E2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a cast copper alloy annular bead. The bead has a dark greyish-green patina. Much of the original surface has been lost. It is undecorated. The object possibly dates to the Bronze Age, circa 2150-800 BC. But a more modern date (maybe medieval can not be ruled out).
Created on: Friday 17th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-588FF0
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small post-medieval cuboid copper alloy bead with a circular hole 2.37mm in diameter. On the remaining four faces are very schematic designs which can be read as: 1. A figure carrying a sack 2. A rabbit 3. A possible fish 4. A bird
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-5189D6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible bead, copper-alloy, date unknown. It is biconical in shape with a central circular hole, it measures 10.04mm in diameter and the central hole is 4.06mm in diameter.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-85A475
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy circular bead of unknown date. The bead has a D-shaped cross section with a flat interior. It measures 11.2mm in external diameter and is 5.7mm thick. It weighs 1.73 grams. Simple copper alloy beads are hard to date accurately as they were used widely from the Bronze Age onwards, becoming more common in the Roman and Medieval periods and enduring until the Post Medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-EF0698
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy circular bead of unknown date. The bead has a D-shaped cross section with a flat interior. The bead appears to have been made by rolling a thick sheet of copper alloy around a central solid shape while the metal was still plastic, and then sealing the ends of the sheet together. A deep recess is visible where the two ends of the sheet meet. The bead measures 7.7mm in internal diameter, and 15.5 in external diameter. It is 4.1mm thick. The bead weighs 5.4 grams. Simple copper alloy beads are hard to date accurately as they were used widely from the Bronze Age onwards, becom…
Created on: Monday 17th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BD2778
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Faience melon bead dating to 1st to 2nd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maryport', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-141237
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy Bronze Age Bead. The bead is roughly bi-conical in shape with a slightly raised flat ridge running around the circumference. The central hole as a diameter of 5.6mm. Beads of this type were produced in gold and copper-alloy during the Bronze Age.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B4D056
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon glass bead, opaque white with light blue crossed waves and red dots, height 10mm, diameter 15mm. Guido (1999), type 3iiic.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5E8C87
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead, 16mm long, 13mm wide and 10mm thick weighs 2.13 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-608C77
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete bright blue glass bead, perhaps most likely to be Roman in date and it is within a Roman site. It has a circular hole drilled through its centre which measures 4.84mm in diameter and it is 10.90mm in external diameter and 4.44mm in thickness.
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-BC40F5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undecorated copper alloy bead. The bead is circular in plan (9.54mm diameter) with a circular concentric 3.4mm central hole. In cross-section it is sub-circular. Undecorated beads of this type are difficult to date tightly as they are used in this form from the Bronze Age through to the Early Medieval period. The bead is 3mm thick and weighs 0.7g.
Created on: Sunday 21st October 2007
Last updated: Friday 8th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-CA0F24
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead, probably Roman in date. The bead is circular and has a flat perimeter with a sightly raised central area. The centre has a circular hole.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fiskerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-CA1B15
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead, probably Roman in date. The bead is circular and flat. The centre has a circular hole.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fiskerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-CA2474
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead, probably Roman in date. The bead is circular with a flat perimeter and a covex centre on either side. There is a hole through the centre.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fiskerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-066357
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case No: 2006 T353 Openwork silver-gilt bead, made in two hemispherical hollow sections soldered together as marked by transverse band of cable ornament. The openwork structure made up of foliate spirals with small projecting knops. Wide gilt loop for suspension at the top. Hollow cylindrical setting for another element, now lost, at bottom. Approx 1.5 cm diameter. Weight: 4.2g. Possibly a decorative bead for wearing on the end of a rosary or belt end. Not dissimilar in facture to the Tudor dress-pins of the 16th Century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'York Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-87F5E5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead; Flat, circular bead of matt, transluscent, pale green glass. The bead is a thick disc with rounded edges and a very small, circular hole through the centre. It is not of an even thickness, narrowing towards one side (which would presumably be the top when the bead was strung as it would be lighter than the thicker side). The bead is polished smooth over its surface with a few chips missing from the narrower side. Glass beads of this type are very difficult to date without a context, but I have suggested a late Roman or Early Medieval date, based on parallels recorded els…
Created on: Wednesday 31st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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: LIN-1E5464
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bun shaped green glass bead. The bead has a hole through the centre 2.85mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Folkingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-1E5E21
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unfinished rock crystal bead. The bead is bun shaped and has an irregular surface. There is a rough channel across one side of the bead that may be a broken hole, however all surfaces appear unworked.
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Folkingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2F92E7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An annular bead cast in copper alloy of possible Roman date (Int. dia.: 4.55mm). The bead is biconvex in form with flat top and bottom. The artefact is plain corroded to a dull light-green colour with some pitting. A possible Roman date is suggested based on finds made in the vicinity.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corhampton and Meonstoke CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F1ED08
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy bead of possible Bronze Age, or later date. It is circular with a circular central piercing 6.7cm in diameter, and has flattened surfaces around the perforations. It is biconical and measures 15.93mm in diameter at its maximum width, 8.63mm in height, and weighs 8.05g. The use of copper alloy for beads in the Roman to Medieval periods is not common, but there are a few examples on the PAS database. Some for which a Bronze Age date is suggested include beads from West Sussex, SUSS 61E555 and DF71D5. The latter is similar to the Brockley bead, though larger and heavier. …
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3263F4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy bead of probable Medieval or Post-Medieval date. The bead is spherical in shape with flattened top and bottom and a circular central perforation. The exterior of the bead is moulded to produce five prominent vertical ribs, which give it a flower or rosette shaped appearance when looked at in plan. It measures 4.75mm in height, 5.86mm in diameter, and weighs 0.60g.
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Glemham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-451474
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass bead of possible Roman date. It is circular in shape with a small central circular perforation. The bead measures 7.59mm in diameter, 3.41mm in thickness, and weighs 0.30g. It was found whilst metal detecting on a site known to produce Roman finds. Similar beads recorded from Suffolk (see for example SF-EB5C13, SF-9FA3C3, SF-608C77 and SF-E1AE71) and one example from Roman Colchester (Crummy, 1983: no. 614) suggest a probable Roman date for this example.
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-FAFDF4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead. The bead is circular in plan and hexagonal in section being bi-conical. It is of regular thickness with the circular perforation centrally set. There is raised band running around the bead, flanked to either side by a narrow circumfral groove. A circumfral groove also runs around the perforation to each side. No casting seam is visible. The original surface survives mostly intact with a dark green patina, with areas of damage and wear showing as lighter green. The bead has a diameter of 14.42mm, is 10.22mm thick and weighs 6.04g. Beads are difficult to date, …
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6456B6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Romano British bead, plano-convex, the convex face rather irregular. Diameter 11mm. Length / thickness 3.4mm. Hole diameter 6.5mm. Weighing 1.31g.
Created on: Monday 15th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9229F7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano British copper alloy bead, globular, solid cast with slight collar on one side of central perforation, the other side slightly splayed. External diameter 16mm. Diameter of perforation 9mm. Length 11mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-92FFF6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated jet bead, elongated bi-conical or barrel shape with longitudinal perforation, length 11mm, diameter 7mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F7FDC6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman glass short oblate bead dating from the 3rd or 4th centuries AD (Crummy 1983 p 32). The bead is made of an opaque blue with seven opaque white vertical mosaic sections running around the body of the bead. There are also white mosaic circles at either end of the bead, around the hole. The hole is 1.7mm in diameter and travels through the centre of the bead. The bead is 6.7mm long, 9.1 in diameter and weighs 0.8g.
Created on: Monday 22nd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.