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Early Medieval glass bead
Clear blue, cylindrical; wire-bound, with bevelled ends showing where bead was knocked off from the next ones on the wired string. Perhaps Mediterranean or Coptic, certainly not Teutonic.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
62.203/G.206
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut X A, Layer (1), U U: Unstratified, normally from the interior of the site.
Measurements
length / mm:13.5
diameter / mm:3
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