Record ID: CORN-CC203C
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead that is black in colour and slightly translucent, with swirling patterns within the glass, but worn and scratched on the surface. The bead is circular in plan and asymmetrically ovoid in profile, with a cylindrical central perforation and a lip on the edge of the hole, which shows that the molten glass would have been twisted and rolled around a central rod during its manufacture. Crummy (1983) illustrates a similar short barrel bead on page 33, Fig.34, No.628, which is dated from the post-Roman period. Roman beads in stratified local contexts are rare, but examples of simi…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Last updated: Sunday 25th May 2014
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