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Faience bead from Stanton Moor
Copyright Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust
Faience bead from Stanton Moor
Dimensions : Length 0.7cm, width 0.5cm.
Site name : Stanton Moor
Site type : Burial site
Time period : Bronze Age
Material : Faience
Object type : Grave goods; Personal item; Jewellery
Museum number : 1979.1090
This fragment of a segmented faience bead was found in cairn T56 on Stanton Moor. This cairn has not been published but there are some details of the finding of the bead.
Faience is glass coloured with copper, which gives it a distinctive turquoise colour. The bead is broken, with only four segments surviving. However, it is very finely made, each segment being of equal size. On one side it still has its strong turquoise colouring.
Glossary:
Barrow
Bronze Age
Cairn
Excavation
Excavator
Faience
J. P. and J. C. Heathcote
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