Record ID: NLM-1A9396
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blue glass bead. Blue glass bead with air bubble inclusions, sharp ridge. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Height: 8.5mm, Diameter: 16.6mm, Thickness: 5.7mm, Weight: 1.59gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-B87A99
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman orange glass globular bead dating from AD 50-410. The bead has a perforation 1mm in diameter. The bead is slightly sub-spherical. Dimensions: diameter: 5.07mm; height: 5.97mm; weight: 0.43g. A similar beads on the database are LON-0381A3 and LON-E416F5 found in the same area and may have belonged to the same object.
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-6F2089
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete bead made from translucent dark blue glass, dating to the Roman period around AD 50-200. The bead is circular in plan with a central hole (annular). It has a flat top and bottom. The inner surface is smooth and the outer surface is adorned with regular longitudinal (transverse) ridges and grooves (gadroons) providing a distinctive ridged appearance. It may be cassified as a "melon" bead, but it is less spherical than most examples. Measurements are; diameter 12.6mm, thickness 6.4mm and weight 0.94g. Melon beads are typical of the early Roman period,…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SOM-723C8D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An opaque light blue glass fragment of unknown date, Roman to Modern 50 AD - 1900 AD.  The object is irregular in plan and section and measures 15.39mm in length, 5.27mm in width with a thickness of 2.27mm. It weighs 0.18 grams. The surface is abraded and there is no clear evidence of the central perforation if the object were a bead. As stated by LVPL-33B418, glass beads are problematic to date. Whilst often considered to be Roman (see, for example, LON-00CE9C, and SWYOR-F91EF7) or early medieval, beads of this form have been in use from the Iron Age th…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: DENO-0A6D62
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman glass bracelet or armlet, dating to c. AD 70 - 120. The fragment is D shaped in section. The bracelet has been made in a black glass typical of early Roman manufacture, but has white-glass swirls applied to the outer surface of the rim. Length 26.79 mm, width 12.49 mm, thickness 7.26 mm and weight 2.92 g.
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: BERK-731F4B
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of.Late Roman - Early Medieval date. Posibly Guido Type 20, although purple is not mentioned. The bead dark purple/red in colour and opaque. The bead is square in plan and section it is unclear whether the corners are faceted due to wear. There is a hole running through the centre.
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: BERK-7316D5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of.Roman date. Guido Type 16. The bead is blue in colour and opaque. It is ovate in plan and circular in section with a hole running through the centre.
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: BERK-7311D3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of.Roman date. Guido Type 11. The bead is green in colour and semi-translucent. There is six faceted sides; two wide opposite each other and four narrow. There is an oval perforation through the long edge.
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: ESS-7CD6C8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of four fragments of a glass vessel or vessels of Roman date (43 AD - 410 AD). Fragment 1 Description: Part of the rim of a glass jug or jar. The rim is teardrop shaped in cross-section and hollow/tubular.  Blue green in colour. Curvature suggests the rim had an external diameter of approximately 150mm.   Measurements: height 13.1mm; width: 82.8mm; thickness: 7.7mm; weight: 10g Fragment 2 Description: Fragment of the handle of a glass vessel, including a portion of its attachment to the vessel body. Handle is ridged on…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-69395C
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a glass bracelet dating to the Roman period, c. AD 50 - AD 200. The segment is D-shaped in section and pale turqouise and white in colour, a white band running through the other colour. A similar example is YORYM-D43C96, the entry for which states 'Bracelets and bangles of a variety of materials, including metal, jet and shale, are a particularly common find on Romano-British sites. Glass examples such as this were distinctive objects produced in Britain in the mid-first to late-second centuries AD...  the quick ma…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme St Cuthbert', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-520DD6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of uncertain type, Roman to post-medieval in date. The bead is opaque, wound, medium-globular with a pale/mother of pearl sheen on dark blue. Central circular perforation. Diameter: 8.87 mm Height: 6.81 mm; Weight: 0.65g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
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Record ID: LIN-51FC54
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass bead of uncertain type, Roman to post-medieval in date. The bead is opaque, wound, medium-globular and dark blue. Diameter: 8.97 mm Height: 6.83 mm; Weight: 0.65g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-EEF9C9
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman intaglio in dark blue opaque glass imitating nicolo, probably from a signet ring, and dating to the Roman Period, about AD 43 - 410. The gem has been moulded as an oval with flat faces and bevelled sides, making the front smaller than the reverse. The shape is the 'flat type 2' of Henig (1978:9). The gem bears the recessed motif of a standing figure, probably female, in profile looking to the left. The details are worn but the figure appears to be winged and holds a wreath and a long stick which could be the base of a palm, suggesting Victory. Dimensions:…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: LON-7030E4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman faience melon bead dating to the period c. AD 50 - 200. The bead is light blue in colour and has seventeen vertical grooves on the outer surface. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 6.29mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Dimensions: diameter: 16.45mm; height: 14.82mm; weight: 3.82g Crummy (1995:30) writes "These beads are found in 1st- and 2nd-century contexts (Guido 1978, 100) and seem, on the evidence from our catalogue, to have been introduced into this country at the conquest. There is some slight indic…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: LON-7C0EA3
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman intaglio blue nicolo glass bearing the motif of Mercury’s cockerel, dating from AD 43-410. The intaglio is oval in plan with a bevelled edge on the obverse side. The central section is light blue in colour and has a left facing standing cockerel incised into it. The reverse is flat. The cockerel was one of Mercury’s totemic animals often depicted with the god. The cockeral was concidered the herald of the new day. Dimensions: length: 8.29mm; width: 6.51mm; thickness: 1.85mm; weight: 0.51g. Reference: Henig, M. 1978. A Corp…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-D43C96
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a glass bracelet dating to the Roman period, c. AD 50 - AD 200. Kilbride-Jones type 2. The bracelet is D-shaped in section and blue in colour. At the apex of the curved side a semi-circular groove is present into which a separate strip of glass has been fitted through marvering. The strip is comprised of alternating thick blue and thin white glass cables which have been twisted together to create a twisted rope effect. The bracelet fragment is 25.84mm long, 13.57mm wide and 8.79mm thick. It weighs 5.07g. Bracelets and bangle…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-D40B61
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete blue glass bead of uncertain date. Approximately half the bead has survived, it appears to have been cylindrical in shape with a circular cross-section. The edges of a sub-circular perforation can be seen in the centre. The bead is 12.85mm long,  7.82mm wide and 5.94mm thick. It weighs 0.94g. Glass beads are very difficult to date with any certainty. They are often thought to be Roman in date though blue glass beads were commonly for use in spangles on lace making bobbins in the 19th century. Due to a lack of contextual evidence and any diagnost…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-81EE36
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman intaglio in dark blue nicolo glass bearing the motif of a seated figure possibly Roma holding a septre in left hand and palladium in her right dating from AD 50-410. The raised central section is blue-grey in colour and has the figure incised into it. The rest of the intaglio is a blue/black in colour. The reverse is flat. A similar seated figure representing Roma is illustrated in Henig (1978 plate XXXIX nos. 250) Dimensions: length: 13.18mm; width: 10.36mm; thickness: 4.17mm; weight: 0.94g. Reference: Henig, M. 1978. A Corpus of Roman Engraved …
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-417472
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the base of a glass drinking vessel of possible Roman date. The fragment appears to derive from the constriction on a pedestal base and features a domed interior surface surrounded by the stump of a thin vessel wall; underneath the concave lower surface for the base has a swirled texture from the production and cooling process. There is no obvious pontil scar. The glass has a greenish tinge demonstrating an unbleached natural iron content and contains small bubbles with a laminar texture visible in the cross section at the breaks.
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-66A62D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an opaque, mid to sky blue blue, glass bead of uncertain date, probably AD 43 - 1200. It appears to have been globular, in the form of an oblate spheroid, being slightly flattened at the ends, but less than half survives. There is a circular perforation, through the centre of the bead, between the two flattened ends. The bead is 7.7mm long, 5.6mm wide, 3.6mm thick and weighs 0.16g. The lines of the internal structure are clearly visible and suggest that the bead was trailed in a spiral rather than moulded. Glass beads are very difficult to date with any ce…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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