Object: Covering
Classification: Shale bead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,No. 3011.14
Site: England,Essex,Rochford
Parish: Rochford
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 27
Width (mm): 23
Weight (g): 8.4
Surface: Smooth polished gold.
Associations: The coverings of 2 other beads of similar design and size, and the shale cores missing, and 2 Amber Beads rather like flat washers. Also a tiny bead 12mm long composed of vitreous paste encircled by 2 gold banks.
Description: Shale, with a thin covering of gold finely decorated with incised rings. The gold case is made of 2 cups lapped together. In section, practically round.
Remarks: Gold and Amber Beads from a Bronze Age Burial about 1350 to 1150 B.C.