Record ID: DENO-ABEF13
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass late Roman to Anglo-Saxon bead dating to the fourth to seventh centuries AD. The bead is globular and decorated with white and pale blue crossed waves and yellow and green eyes. It is made from opaque black glass with six pellets of opaque yellow glass arranged around the edge. Each yellow glass pellet has a translucent green glass pellet near its centre. These pellets are known as 'eyes'. Additionally there is a pattern of raised lines of opaque white and pale blue glass, known as crossed waves. These lines are incomplete, indicating that some of the glass has worn away. T…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
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Record ID: NCL-672067
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A colourless-glass bead of Roman or Early Medieval date, c. 43-700. The bead is oblate in shape, and made in a yellow-tinged colourless glass with a hold through the centre. The glass is very opaque and was probably made by drawing out from a wire; each end of the hole (on the flattish faces of the bead) has evidence of where the bead was broken/removed from the drawing wire and rod.
Created on: Monday 29th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2013
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Record ID: NCL-634645
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue-glass bead of Roman or Early Medieval date, c. 43-700. The bead is oblate in shape, and made in a turqoise-coloured blue glass with a hold through the centre. The glass is very opaque and was probably made by drawing out from a wire; Each end of the hole (on the flattish faces of the bead) has evidence of where the bead was broken/removed from the drawing wire and rod.
Created on: Monday 29th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2013
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Record ID: DUR-613AC7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete blue glass bead of uncertain date, possibly either Roman or Early Medieval. The bead is conical, with a central circular perforation through the entire object. It is dark blue in colour, with flecks of white and brown probably from general wear and tear. The bead weighs 0.6g. See NCL-975803 as a comparison.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2012
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