File:Chalk or stone bead of uncertain date (front and profile) (FindID 1011842).jpg

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chalk or stone bead of uncertain date (front and profile)
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Vic Allnatt, 2020-09-26 16:27:35
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chalk or stone bead of uncertain date (front and profile)
Description
English: A possible chalk or stone bead of uncertain date. The bead is broadly oval in form with a centrally drilled circular hole. The bead is a cream colour and has a porous pitted surface. 

Beads of this type are hard to date outside of excavated contexts as they are known from the Iron Age through to the Post Medieval period.

The bead measures 13.2 mm in length, 11.5 mm in width, 9.8 mm in thickness and weighs 1.7 g. The perforation measures 3.6 mm in diameter.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date Unknown date
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FindIdentifier: 1011842
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1117257
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1117257/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1011842
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 12 November 2020)
Object location52° 49′ 21.36″ N, 1° 52′ 07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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