Record ID: NLM-867139
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Powder-blue opaque possible glass bead fragment. A large gadrooned or vertically ribbed melon bead with a central moulded aperture of diameter in excess of 11mm, and with a flat rim at either side. This oversized stringing hole would have complicated the stringing of this object with other beads of more conventional sizes. A function as a toggle to fasten a belt or girdle might also be entertained - the aperture is over-sized for this to have been an early spindle whorl. The finder kindly suggests an Anglo-Saxon date. While such an object might be reused at that time, the form is Earl…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.