Iron Age Bead

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This glass bead is one of two beads found buried with an Iron Age Woman and Child near Kings Drive.  They were buried with the woman’s arm around the child so we don’t know whether the beads were worn around the wrist of the woman or the neck of the child.

Iron Age Bead by Heritage Eastbourne on Sketchfab

The woman and child that these beads were buried with lived in Eastbourne almost 2250 years ago. She probably lived in a settlement, on what is now Kings Drive, and could have spent a lot of her time working to get salt from the marshes, just metres from her home. She was around 30 – 45 years old when she died and was 156cm tall. The child was aged between 4 and 5 years old.