Blue glass beads, Whithorn
A group of 'melon beads' of blue glass. The ornamentation is
created dragging a metal tool, such as a knife, through the
soft glass. If the bead is not heated much after combing, the cuts
in the glass produce a multilobed melon bead.
A tenth century Arab once wrote that the Vikings would "go to any
length to get hold of colored beads".
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