Record ID: YORYM-C36655
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polychrome terracotta annular glass bead of probable Early-Medieval date, c.AD 550 - 650. Guido Polychrome Type XVI. The bead is circular in plan and section with a central circular perforation of 4.3mm diameter. It is made of an opaque terracotta glass, with a single white waved band as decoration on the surface. Slight pitting is present on the surface. The bead has a diameter of 16.1mm and is 11.7mm thick. It weighs 2.5g. The colour combination and decorative style of this bead fit with Guido Polychrome terracotta globular bead with single waved bands Type XVI. G…
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: NLM-2E6AEC
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead. Sub-spherical or barrel-shaped moulded bead of opaque mid-blue glass with a central stringing hole of diameter 5.9mm, with three circular dots of applied white opaque glass, one retaining a central red spot. Chipped, probably in antiquity. The bead is a member of Brugmann’s Regular Dot type of Anglo-Saxon bead (Brugmann, B. 2004, Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves, Oxbow Books, Oxford, fig. 150); the similar Koch 34 type of bead is most commonly reported from East Anglia and Eastern Kent. These beads are ascribed to Phase B of Brugmann’s dating scheme, c.AD555-6…
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-4E8C39
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval glass wound bead dating to c.AD 450 - 700. The bead is circular in plan and almost D-shaped in section with central circular perforation. The matrix of the glass is dark blue with opaque yellow trailing. It is made from dark blue glass with yellow detail Diameter: 24.53 mm Diameter: 6.46 mm Weight: 7.08 g Dating of beads and often be tricky due to overlapping types and wide use of simple or crude designs. The shape, colour and style of this bead are comparable with those from Early Medieval graves. Thanks are extended to Alan Burchell and Jo Ahmet for…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billesdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-11D081
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small melon type glass polychromatic bead of early Medieval (Frankish) period c late.6th Century. The bead is globular in form with six ribs. It is primary made of pale blue green glass, the glass is of very high quality being very translucent with only small air bubbles within it. This would suggest being made by a highly quality craftsman. The bead has been decorated with strands of coloured glass applied to the outer surface similar to enamaling. The colours applied are shades of red, yellow and white. There is a small patch of damage on the bead most likley caused by movem…
Created on: Sunday 4th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Radnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D4F8B6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete blue and white annular glass bead of Early Medieval dating (5th to 7th Centuries AD). The bead has been made from an opaque white glass, with translucent dark blue glass trails as decoration on the surface. It is circular in plan. It has convex sides, with the ends flattened, almost an oblate form. Slight pitting is present on the surface. The decorative pattern consists of a central pellet within an oval border. Three pattern repeats are present. The central perforation has been located slightly off centre, it has parallel sides, with an internal diameter of 2.88 mm. T…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North warwickshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-828095
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Glass bead, made from an opaque pale blue glass. Barrel shaped, irregular, hole 3.4mm diameter
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2011
Last updated: Saturday 19th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Driffield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-633A60
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT 7th Century decorative glass mount in silver setting, probably a pendant. Description of find An Anglo-Saxon glass cabochon in a silver setting. The cabochon is made from green, translucent, bubbly glass, with three twisted, opaque, blue-and-white cable trails fused into its slightly pitted surface. The oval silver setting consists of a plain upstanding frame inside of a fine twisted cable border (0.7mm diameter). Approximately half of the back-plate is missing; the remainder is plain and very fragile. There is no obvious means of attachment, but the metal setti…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuxford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-4BAD77
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Published
A complete sub-cylindrical decorated polychrome glass bead, with flattened ends (diameter: 9.1mm; thickness: 7.7mm; weight: 0.87g), dating to the Early Medieval period, probably 6th-8th century AD. The dark blue/black bead seems to have been splashed with a range of colours after the initial monochrome bead was made, including yellow, red, grey/blue and off-white. These colours have been applied irregularly and in no distinctive pattern. The hole which is slightly off-centre in the bead (created by a metal rod when the bead was made) is also of irregular shape, with the diameter being …
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-F61DD5
Object type: LINEN SMOOTHER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete, glass linen smoother. This linen smoother is made from black glass and is circular in plan and a flattened kidney shape in section, being clearly domed on one face and slightly flattened and countersunk on the opposite. Within this countersunk, circular depression are the clear remains of the ‘stalk’ of glass where the smoother was separated by twisting from the maker’s glass rod. The surface has a patchy iridescent quality. It is heavily abraded, with a significant flake of glass chipped from one side on the domed underside. The abrasion and chipped area are worn, sugg…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bromley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3E23A6
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete midnight blue opaque glass bead. This bead is circular in shape, measuring 12.8mm in diameter and 11.8mm in height. It has a central circular perforation, measuring 2.6mm in diameter. It is smooth but has tiny cracks and indentations on its surface, probably caused by wear over time. It was found in association with many other early Anglo-Saxon artefacts, most of which showed signs of burning. Although this bead does not appear to have been burnt it is still most likely to be early Anglo-Saxon in date and to have been deposited originally in an early Anglo-Saxon grave…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-02BFD8
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early Anglo-Saxon polychrome glass bead. This bead is fairly large and is circular in shape, it measures 30mm in diameter, is 9.4mm thick and has a central circular perforation which measures 7mm in diameter. The glass is black in colour and has yellow glass inclusions. Around the centre of the edge of this bead there is faint circumferencial zig-zag trail. Dr. Birte Brugmann has examined this bead and believes as a circumferencial trail is present it is most likely to be late Roman or early Anglo-Saxon, dating to the 5th or 6th century (Brugmann personal comm. 9/2003). …
Created on: Thursday 11th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderton', grid reference and parish protected.