Record ID: LEIC-66C446
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman or Anglo-Saxon glass bead, 11mm in diameter and 5mm thick. The bead is in fair condition and weighs 0.66grams. The bead has been roughly made and is sub spherical with a dark green colour. It has a very small circulur hole in its centre, which on one side is surrounded by a depression On the other side the hole is slightly smaller and has no accompanying depression.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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
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Record ID: LEIC-690732
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman or Anglo-Saxon black and white glass bead, 14mm in diameter and 7mm high. The object is in fair condition and weighs 1.94grams. The bead is sub rectangular in form and circular in section with a circular hole. Its body is black and is decorated on its outer surface with a zig-zag drizzle of white glass.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-162FC7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval ? blue glass bead, 10mm in diameter and 5mm thick. The object is intact and weighs 0.46grams.
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-4CB765
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of uncertain date, probably Roman or Early Medieval. It is roughly of circular shape with a large eye in the middle. The object is in good condition, with no obvious damage to its surface, and its colour can be described as blue to turquoise. Thickness: 7mm; Diameter: 10mm; Weight: 0.77g. Found before 1990.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-3F5394
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Early Medieval glass bead, 20mm in diameter, 9mm wide and 6mm thick. The object respresents half of a glass bead. The glass is largely opaque and has visible thin stripes varying from almost opaque pale blue to nearly clear blue/green.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-094697
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
medieval or later blue glass bead, 8mm in diameter and 9mm high. It is in fair condition and weighs 1.16 grams. The bead is plain and has very small circular shaft through its centre.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-1FDE07
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or early Medieval glass bead, 23.8mm in diameter and 13mm thick. The bead is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 6.12grams. The bead is sub-circular in form and oval in section, so that it appears to bulge at one side. It has an off centre circular hole and is missing a small section, which probably caused it to be lost.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-70C974
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval glass bead, 18mm in diameter and 5mm thick. The bead is predominantly blue and is in fair condition with a weight of 2.01grams. The bead is circular in form and rectangular in section and has an off centre, sub circular hole, 5mm in diameter. The bead has trails of white glass running in circles around the outside of its flat surface. This is most obvious on its edge where it forms at least two strong white bands.
Created on: Friday 24th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-411908
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or Early Medieval blue glass bead, 21mm in diameter and 7-9mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 4.17 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-EB5834
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Undated glass bead, 10mm in diameter. The bead is in good condition and has an opaqe light blue colour with a weight of 1.12 grams. The bead is slightly sub-spherical and has a circular threading hole, 3mm in diameter.
Created on: Thursday 1st June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-7BEFA2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Undated glass bead, 9.3mm in diameter. The bead is in fair condition with a turquise patina and weighs 0.51 grams. It has a central hole 3mm in diameter and its surface is covered in ridges. It has a couple of chipped areas but is laregly intact.
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-8B5E97
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or Saxon glass bead, 20mm in diameter, 6mm thick with a weight of 2.37grams. The bead is flat with a central hole 4mm in diameter. The bead is coloured with blue and white glass which forms a swirl. The white glass is intact but the blue has cracks all over its surface.
Created on: Monday 15th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-A33BA0
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or saxon glass bead, 18mm in diameter, 8-10mm thick with a weight of 3.61 grams The bead is a greenish colour and has an irregular central hole. It is rounded in form and section and varies in thickness from 8mm to 10mm, presumambly it was made this way deliberatly to sit better in a necklace?
Created on: Wednesday 9th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LEIC-80F471
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated glass bead, 9mm long and 4mm wide. The bead has been crudely made and weighs 0.26 grams. It is a pale turquoise colour and has an oval form with a rectangular section. The central hole is 'lemon' shaped, a circle with pointed edges.
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-581BE5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated blue glass bead, 8mm in diameter and weighing 0.46 grams. The bead has a central hole 3mm in diametr and its surface is rough and pitted. It could be Roman or Saxon?
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-7AFA02
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Glass bead which is sub circular in form and 14mm in diameter. The bead has an oval shaped aperture which has a strange red patch on either side. The glass is a very dark brown/black and no light can shine through it. date unknown
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LEIC-F55F41
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or Saxon glass 'melon' bead, 10mm in diameter. the bead is seperated into 8 segments by vertical depressions which give it its name.
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-F568D3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Roman or early Medieval Glass bead, 12mm in diameter and 4mm thick. The object is circular in form and ovoid in cross section with a central circular ghole, 5mm in diameter. It is made from black glass and decorated with an applied slip like zig zag decoration in white glass. DENO-ABEF13 provides a parallel and this further info. This bead fits into Margaret Guido's Schedule 2 Type ix ('Black' globular beads with white or coloured crossed waves, with or without eyes or spots) (Guido 1999, pp 25-26 and Plate 2). Such beads are more common on the Continent but are relatively…
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-9F2711
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or later, glass? bead, 12mm long, 8mm in diameter and weighing 2.14grams. The bead is in poor condition and may be abraided glass or stone? it has a rectangular form with a circular cross-section and a large circualr hole.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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