Object: 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): 11.5
Width (mm): 8.5
Weight (g): 0.8
Surface: Smooth. The gold is quite bright and polished and the bead itself is cracked.
Associations: A shale bead with an outer covering of gold and the coverings of 2 other beads (of the same size) (about 27mm long) of extremely thin gold - cores are missing, but of similar design and 2 Amber Beads rather like flat washers.
Description: Said to be made of vitreous paste, encircled with 2 gold bands.
Remarks: Gold and Amber Beads from a Bronze Age Burial about 1350 to 1150 B.C.