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Record ID: ESS-F28866
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete 'jet' bead of possible bronze age date. A broken fusiform bead, approximately half the original surviving. The bead is now 12.2mm in length and with a variable diameter at the widest part, from 12.1 - 12.4 mm. It is highly polished. The surviving end has a flat sub-circular face 6.5 mm in diameter, with a central perforation. This perforation tapers from 3.1 mm at the surviving end face, to 2.2mm at the break. It is not clear whether the perforation is expanding from a central minimum at or near the break, therefore it cannot be said with any confidence that the perforati…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fyfield area', grid reference and parish protected.