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Early Medieval glass bead
Colourless; tiny fragment, perhaps from a tubular bead of hexangonal section, for parts of two adjoining surfaces seem to be discernable. If so, probably a coptic and not a Teutonic type? Is this Quartz crystal?
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
62.203/G.205
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut XVIII E, Layer (1), H H: Humus on back of bank, thin towards crest, deeper towards interior. Some shattered bone, some artefacts.
Measurements
length / mm:10
width / mm:5
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