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Roman / Early Medieval glass bead
"Flattened oblate spherical bead of opaque turquoise blue glass : wire wound. The flattening has been made with a pincers and is intentional. The glass contains many black and sandy impurities, especially on the surface of the threading-hole. This is not, so far as I remember a 'Saxon' type, but turquoise blue beads are frequent in the latest Iron Age, and in Roman times, and that (AD 1-400) is where I would prefer to place this specimen at a guess." Dr D B Harden
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
64.357/3
Find Information
Site Name: Dyffryn Ardudwy, Llanenddwyn
Grid Reference: SH 588 229
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1962
Notes: found in soil among the upper cairn stones on the north side of the eastern chamber forecourt
Measurements
external diameter / mm:8.7 x 5.1
diameter / mm
internal diameter / mm:3.3 x 2.8
diameter / mm
thickness / mm:5.2
weight / g:0.4
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