Glass Dumb-bell Shaped Beads
 Glass beads from Braust, Andreas | Celtic Farmers - Iron Age 600 BC - 500 AD Dimensions: Smallest 1.2cm long, largest 2.2cm long Manx Museum Accession Number - 1985-0012/1 |
Three pale green glass dumb-bell shaped beads. Dumb-bell, or toggle, shaped beads were hung by thread or cord wound around the middle of the bead, rather than being threaded through a perforation through the middle of the bead. They would have been worn as decoration and are an unusual type of bead, perhaps indicating a higher social status.
Excavated from the site of an Iron Age hut at Braust in January 1985.
The beads are on display in the Manx Museum.
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