Record ID: DEV-122236
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age or Roman glass melon bead, probably dating to c. AD 1-200. The surviving fragment is of a dark blue glass and comprises of roughly one third of the bead. The cross section of the bead is D-shaped, and in profile it is sub-rectangular, with rounded ends, originally, the bead was probably sub-circular in plan. The bead also had a central, circular perforation, the sides of which are smooth. The outer face of the bead has been mouded into a series of longitudinal gadroons, ie. alternating rounded ridges divided by V-shaped grooves. Both breaks are unpatinated. D…
Created on: Monday 26th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monkton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-10FFBF
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age or Roman glass annular bead, probably dating to 300 BC - AD 410. Sub-circular in plan with a central sub-circular perforation and sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded ends. Of an opaque blue glass with a white trail applied in a continuous wavy band. Dimensions: diameter 17.5mm; thickness 8.8mm; weight 3.22g. Guido (1978: 63-64) describes beads of this type as her group 5A, illustrating an comparable idealised example plt. 1, no. 10d. She describes how this was an extremely long lived style which continued in use throughout the Iron Age, Roman and Early Med…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.