Late Iron Age bead, near west bank of Stebbing or Daiseyley Brook (EHER 1347)

Chance find of a bead, 1967, near west bank of Stebbing or Daiseyley Brook, in silt redeposited from a stream.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Chance find of a late Iron Age bead, 1967, near west bank of Stebbing or Daiseyley Brook, in silt redeposited from a stream. Bead is of pale yellow glass with five inset rich blue roundels. Into each roundel, a spiral has been wound of opaque white glass. The perforation is more or less straight and each roundel stands out as a slight boss. Diameter is 2.2cm, height is 0.6m, perforation diameter is 1.2cm. Bead is closely related to the so-called Oldbury type. Both types belong to the last two centuries BC "and to the very wide repertoire manufactured among the continental Celts...This yellow bead is unique of its type in England". Use of white spirals common on continent and in Britain from 50 BC to 50 AD. Dressel 1B amphora containing a cremation was found 'at Lindsell' pre-1840. The two finds, with others of Dressel 1B amphorae "suggest the existence in this part of Essex of a number of hitherto unrecorded Belgic sites". <1> - <4> Illustration in <1> and in SMR. <5> In possession of finder Mr D. Leeder of Lindsell Hall Farm. <6> <7> Photo in record. <8>