Accession No

1927.1721


Description

Fragment of a glass bead. Light orange surface colour with inlaid white and blue circular motifs around the circumference of the central perforation. half of the bead is broken away and missing.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Ivano-Frankovsk; Nezvis’ko [Niezwiska]


Period

Gothic Period A.D. 200 - 500


Source

Hutchinson, Richard W. [excavator]; Preston, Jocelyn P. [excavator]; Kozłowski, Leon [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1927.1721


Cultural Affliation


Material

Glass


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Half a glass bead, opaque yellow glass with disc-shaped panels of blue and white glass inlaid at intervals round its circumference
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found in the Gothic stratum, 2nd trench, Upper Dniester site. Joint excavation by Richard W. Hutchinson, Jocelyn Preston for the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Leon Kozłowski for the University of Lviv [Lwów] in 1926. See archive (LL1/7/1) for correspondence, notes, etc.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa


Context (References)
Hutchinson, R.W. and Preston, J.P. (1930). ‘Excavations at Niezwiska, Poland’. Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, vol. 17. pp. 19–26.
Event Date 1930
Author: Aedan Jones


Description (Physical description)
Fragment of a glass bead. Light orange surface colour with inlaid white and blue circular motifs around the circumference of the central perforation. half of the bead is broken away and missing.
Event Date 4/4/2024
Author: Aedan Jones


FM:49058

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