Record ID: SOM-30476C
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bead, probably dating to the Late Iron Age to Early Roman period c. 1 - 200 AD . The surviving fragment is of a dark blue and red glass and comprises of roughly one third of the bead. Whirl decoration exists on the outer of the bead in a style seen on beads of La Tene type, although the colours used of red and blue are unusual. The approximate diameter of the bead is c 22.2mm. The fragment is sub triangular in profile, and D-shaped in cross section. The breaks to the bead are unpatinated.  Dimensions: length 21.2mm; width 9.27mm; thickness 13.61mm; weight 3.37g. B…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-64B176
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Published
A glass bead of Iron Age date. The bead is circular, with a central hole and is D-shaped in section. The bead is mostly colourless, with a yellow band inside the central hole. Foulds Class 5. 
Created on: Saturday 4th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-CC8A01
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A monochrome blue wound glass bead of any undefined era. Similar glass beads have been produced since the early Iron Age to post medieaval periods.  The bead displays signs of wear on the sides suggesting it was worn with other beads or similar on cordage as the central perferation is worn on two sides. The bead appears to have been produced by winding molten glass around a mandrel or iron rod over a small furnace. The bead is slightly uneven suggesting a variation in the heat when produced, which is characteristic of hand made glass beads. Single coloured h…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-E459AD
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete annular blue glass bead dating from the Iron Age to early Medieval period c. 100 BC to AD 750 The glass contains small bubbles which is consistant with a handmade wound beads produced over a small furnace and wound on an iron mandrel. The perforation has been worn on one side suggesting the bead may have been worn on a cord or chain for a period of time. Single coloured handmade glass beads were popular during the Late Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods. Various blues are common through out the periods. Dating is impossible, as this is a su…
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-9C9C8F
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Glass annular bead. A small opaque translucent cobalt blue globular glass bead with a moulded stringing hole of diameter 2mm. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Roman, 100BC-AD410 Length: 5.3mm, Diameter: 5.6mm, Weight: 0.20gms
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9C7587
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bracelet fragment. Moulded D-section segment from a bracelet of translucent cobalt blue glass with comma-shaped trails of [now] paler blue glass following a medial ridge, and possibly with a band of darker tint within the metal of the band. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 100BC-AD200 Length: 19.0mm, Width: 9mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 1.48gms, Estimated internal diameter: 50mm
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8B85CA
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Glass bead fragment. Translucent cobalt blue glass annular bead of rounded form with a wide [5mm] off-centre stringing hole. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Roman, 100BC-AD 200. Diameter: 12mm, Thickness: 9mm, Weight: 0.60gms
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-678237
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blue glass bead, of uncertain date, possibly Iron Age to Roman, c. 1st century BC to late 4th century AD The bead is near-complete with a crack evident across the face and with surface flaking around the crack and around the perforation (with a length of 8.9mm and a weight of 1.5g). The bead is of slightly irregular flattened-spherical or globular form and is sub-circular in diameter (with a minimum diameter of 11.5mm and a maximum diameter of 12.4m) with a bright, pale-blue colour. The faces are convex and the bead has a single, sub-circular perforation, of uniform diameter (4.5…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C2A858
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age blue glass bead of Guido’ (1978)[1] Class 6, Oldbury Type, probably of 1st century BC to early 1st century AD date The bead has some damage around the central perforation on both sides but is otherwise complete (with a maximum diameter of 26.7mm, a height of 17.6mm and a weight of 14.0mm). The core of the bead is of dark-blue and near-opaque glass of fairly globular form (with a diameter of 14 – 15mm). The outside edge of the bead is decorated with spiral trails of white glass forming conical bosses. The bosses are arranged in a pattern comprising three larger …
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2022
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Record ID: CORN-8D8D30
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age or Roman (c.300 BC-AD 410) wound translucent cobalt blue annular glass bead, with three eye decorations. Two of the eye decorations are of white glass with a central dot of yellow paste, and the third eye decoration is missing the central yellow dot as a result of the white glass separating from it or of subsequent damage. The glass contains bubbles which are consistent with handmade wound beads produced over a small furnace and wound on an iron mandrel. The bead is in an excellent condition overall. The perforation has been worn on one side suggesting it was…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-3DFB5E
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete glass bead of Guido Group 5; Type 10d, dating to the Late Iron Age to mid Roman period (c. BC 150-AD 300). The bead is annular in shape with a large central perforation. The bead is a dark blue or cobalt semi-translucent colour with white decorative swirling, formed of a zig zag pattern, across the outer surface. The white decoration would have been formed through trailing hot white glass on the surface of the bead when it was still hot. Then a technique referred to as marvering, in which the hot outer surface of the bead with decoration was pressed against a cold and sm…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd January 2020
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Record ID: HESH-6E9EB2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A light blue glass bead with a slightly off centre sub-circular hole. The bead is broadly bun / globular shaped being near circular in plan and rectangular shaped in cross section. The central hole is irregular and slightly faceted through wear: it measures 5.7mm x 6.3mm. The bead is a light matt azure blue colour; when it is held up to the light it is translucent and has a number of small air bubbles and flecks present. The external edge has a decorative white trailed serpentine stripe of glass within the matrix. The bead has also been slightly scratched and damaged by abrasion in th…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bucknell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-18442A
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small dark blue wound spherical glass bead with an off central perforation. The bead is slightly miss-shaped, due to the bead being held too long in heat during the manufacturing process. The bead would have been formed on an iron mandrel or rod, by melting glass until it flowed onto a rotated rod to form a disc. The bead is 10.8 mm in diameter, 7.5 mm in height with a the central perforation that varies from 2.8 mm to 3 mm in diameter, suggesting that the iron rod that it was made on was tapered. Irregular beads similar to this bead are common from the Iron Age, Roman and Early Med…
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: WAW-7DA9B5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age-Roman glass bead, dating 800BC - AD100. Approximately half of the bead remains, the breaks appear to be recent damage. The bead was circular with a circular perforation measuring 14.82mm diameter. It is made from dark brown-black glass with yellow detail being trailed up, across and down the sides of the bead repeatedly. The bead measures 32.52mm diameter, 14.65mm thick and weighs 10.2g. While handmade beads with trailed decoration were popular in both the Late Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods this example is probably every Iron Age considering the site it …
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: ESS-4B2885
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Blue glass bead - GLO-8A7376 similar example Iron age to Early medieval in date Glass bead of probable late Iron Age/early Roman date. The bead is a deep cobalt blue colour and circular in shape. There is a circular hole set off-centre, and one side of the bead is slightly thicker than the other. Around the outer edge of the bead are three white 'dots' in slight depressions on the surface. The depression on one dot is present as only around half of the white glass detailing remains. Another dot also seems to be abutted by a circular filled depression or 'dot' of a gr…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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Record ID: SOM-396F3D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass annular bead of uncertain date, potentially Iron Age to early medieval, c. 600 BC - AD 800. The bead is sub-circular in plan and sub-oval in cross section, with an of centre circular perforation. The glass is of an opaque dark blue, containing very abundant air bubbles, some of which break the surface, and with internal spiralling bands of yellow-green colouration visible when viewed under bright light. There is a conchoidal break struck from the perforation on one face. Dimensions: diameter 22.9mm; diameter of perforation 7.5mm; thickness 11.8mm; weight 7.57g. The …
Created on: Monday 8th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: LVPL-7076A9
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A light blue glass bead of Iron Age to post-medieval date. The bead is spherical in shape with a circular hole through the centre and is made from an opaque light blue glass. The hole has an internal diameter of 4.5mm. The outer surface of the bead is cracked and pitted in places. Dimensions: 12mm in diameter, 16.5mm in length, 2.85g. Guido (1999) classifies this type of bead group 6i, blue glass annular bead. When lacking specific diagnostic features and not from a secure archaeological context glass beads are difficult to date precisely as simple beads like this one were in use ac…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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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
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Record ID: WAW-3118A7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age-Roman glass bead, dating 800BC - AD100. Approximately half of the bead remains, the breaks appear to be recent damage. The bead was circular with a circular perforation measuring 8.66mm diameter. It is made from dark blue glass with white spirals on the exterior surface which are flush with the surface of the bead and not forming a nodule which can occur on other examples. The spirals vary in thickness and size. The bead measures 23.54mm diameter, 11.45mm thick and weighs 3.74g. This style of bead has been discussed at length by Foulds (2014, pp. 7-8) who notes that…
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2017
Last updated: Friday 18th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Studley area.', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-8A0344
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two blue glass beads, Opaque pale blue 8mm thick, 12mm diameter and weighing 1.37grams. Dark blue, 6mm thick, 9mm in diameter and weighing 0.97grams. The form and colouration suggest they could be of some age, but these are very difficult to date. Iron age to medieval?
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2017
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