Record ID: LIN-9CE737
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass bead of uncertain date, probably Roman-early medieval (Early Anglo-Saxon) dating to c.AD 43-650 The bead is a bright blue and takes a globular bun form, spherical in cross-section, with a central circular aperture. Dimensions: 10.39 mm high, 11.29 mm wide and 11.37 thick. Weight: 2.32g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: LIN-FEE01A
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete glass bead of the ribbed 'Melon' type dating to the late Iron Age-Roman period, c.AD1-200. The bead is a translucent rich blue glass with seven unevenly spaced longitudinal gadroons. Measurements (provided by finder): 0.8cm high; 0.8cm width and the weight is less than 1g. In the record PAS no. ESS-E50B53, Sally Worrell comments: Glass melon beads are present in Europe in the pre-Roman period, and 16 were found in a La Tene burial at the Wetwang Slack cemetery, Yorkshire (Dent 1982, 445-6 fig.7). They are found in many 1st and early 2nd century contexts and appear…
Created on: Monday 4th May 2020
Last updated: Saturday 2nd July 2022
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Record ID: LIN-88459C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim from a small handmade (blown) glass vessel of possible Roman date, AD 43 - 300. Only the rim of the vessel and a short neck survives. It is everted and rounded and is not perfectly circular. One side of the rim is thicker and wider. The fragment is only 9.41 mm long from the top of the rim to the break, but the base of the neck is starting to flare outwards before the break. The glass is a pale green colour and there is slight iridescent patination on the surface of the break, but the break is not worn. The maximum external diameter is 22.97 mm at the rim, 14.92 mm at the neck a…
Created on: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 26th September 2019
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Record ID: LIN-927B31
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small bun-shaped glass bead. The bead is made of dark blue glass; the surface has patinated slightly lighter in colour. A circular hole is located through the centre of the bead. The bead is difficult to date, and finds of Roman to medieval date have all been found in the vicinity.
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-55AD03
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly glass Roman or early medieval (AD c.43-c.1100) bead. It measures 8.9mm in diameter and 6.1mm in thickness. It weighs 0.57g. The bead is circular with convex sides. The central piercing is broadly circular and measures 3.1mm in diameter. The bead is coloured pale blue and white.
Created on: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 17th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-F6C862
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a glass beaker, possibly dating to the Roman period. Only part of the rim survives. The rim is everted with a rounded side. The neck is much narrowed, but the wall is 6mm thick. The colour is turquoise. The form resembles some types of Roman glass beakers, but the glass appears much thicker than these; equally the glass appears to be very solid with few air bubbles or imperfections.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bullington area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-6FD704
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass bead with central perforation. It is spherical and undecorated. Possibly Roman.
Created on: Wednesday 5th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
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Record ID: LIN-9084B3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman glass vessel handle. The fragment comprises a flat strip of glass that has been rolled over. The strip is broken as it begins to extend down into the handle. The back of the strip is attached to a curved sheet of glass which represents the remains of the vessel wall.
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-906401
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman melon bead made of green glass (circa AD 50- AD 200). A hole passes through the centre. The object was found on a field that has produced material suggestive of a sixth century Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery, and so it is possible that this bead was reused in the 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-F95785
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably Roman glass bead. It is a melon type bead made from translucent pale blue glass. The perforation is circular and the outer surface is decorated with vertical grooves.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2012
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Record ID: LIN-2244D3
Object type: BOTTLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the body of a square glass bottle dating to the late first or second century AD. The fragment is right-angled and comprises part of the concave base. The glass is blue-green in colour and contains small trapped air bubbles. Blue-green square bottles were manufactured in very large numbers in the Roman world during the later first and second centuries AD. They were produced in a wide range of sizes, and functioned primarily as containers for the transport and storage of liquid to semi-solid foodstuffs, though larger specimens were sometimes reused as cremation urns (Jen…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bullington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-BE9EA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman glass vessel. The surviving fragment comprises the neck and all of the rim. The neck is circular in cross-section, short (circa 17mm in length) and begins to flare into the shoulders at the break. The wide flat rim extends to a right angle from the neck. The rim is circa 8mm wide (though varies slightly) and has an external diameter of 32mm and an internal of 13mm. The glass is a light green colour. The fragment is probably from a bottle or flask dating to the 2nd or early 3rd century (Cf. Price, J. 'Glass', in Excavations at Stonea, Cambridgeshire 1980-85 …
Created on: Thursday 13th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 13th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sudbrooke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E2A761
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Type 2 Kilbride-Jones glass bangle. The hoop is made from translucent green glass with a blue and white chord moulding at the apex. The bracelet is sub-triangular in cross-section and curved in profile. The cord moulding has not been significantly filed down and stands out slightly in relief.
Created on: Friday 4th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B81A46
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragment from a glass vessel such as a palm cup. The sherd is very fine, blue-green in colour and has a flat interior. The exterior of the rim has a wide curved lip with a smaller ridge below.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-F6A438
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Biconical green glass bead with six sides. There is a small hole through the centre.
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-792445
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bun shaped glass bead. The glass is colourless containing a swirl of brown. The internal hole is circa 2mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-473217
Object type: LINEN SMOOTHER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete glass linen smoother. Approximately a quarter of the linen smoother survives. The edge is rounded and very smooth, leading onto one flat surface and the other slightly concave. In profile the smoother curves, and probably was circular when complete
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-2F6015
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete glass phial. The bottle has a bulbous body with a concave base. The glass is colourless with a greenish tint. The neck is short and cylindrical and is broken just before the rim. One part of the upper neck starts to flare outwards suggesting that the rim would have been slightly everted. The diameter of the neck is 15mm, and its length is 11mm. The interior surface of the phial has a mottled, almost oil-like refractive patina.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7BB831
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A spherical blue glass bead. The internal diameter is 2mm
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LIN-5AC7E7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bun-shaped blue glass bead. The internal diameter of the hole is 3mm. The field from which this object was recovered has produced finds dating predominantly to the Anglo-Saxon period.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.