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Set of beads

Bead set with two gilded bead separators and set of 258 beads in six rows. Most of the beads are monochrome, with different colours, made of glass or white limestone. A smaller number are turquoise or light green with mosaic patterns. Individual beads are gold or silver foiled and segmented. Grave find, Ihre, Hellvi Parish, Gotland.

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Object number: 108059_HST

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