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GLASS BEAD (TYA 642: 2806)

Type: Fragment of a yellow serial bead.

Use: Jewel.

Site: Raisio, Ihala, Mulli abode.

Period: Viking Age / Crusade Age / Early Middle Ages

Dating: 980-1220 A.D.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This bead was manufactured by spreading a layer of bright yellow melted glass on the colourless base glass. The form and the diameter of this bead is quite typical to the multipart beads with a small hole found in the Viking-Age cemeteries.

Sources:

• Callmer 1977.
• Callmer 1977.
• Cleve 1978.
• Drahotová 1983.
• Lundström 1976.

Other pictures:

• TYA 283: 13 (glass beads)
• TYA 642: 2701 (glass bead)
• TYA 642: 2443 (glass bead) (glass bead)
• TYA 642: 2835 (glass bead)
• TYA 642: 2839 (glass bead)
• TYA 642: 2931 (glass bead).

Other related topics:

• Glass
• Jewels
• Trade.

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