Bead, copper alloy. Bronze beads of this type have been found in stone graves with cremations (e.g. Mägi 2002, Pl. 13: 19–21) as well as inhumation burials dating to the 12th – 13th centuries (see Spirģis 2008, 421). In Estonia they are usually associated with belt ornaments.
Literature:
Mägi, M. 2002. At the Crossroads of Space and Time. Graves, Changing Society and Ideology on Saaremaa (Ösel), 9th–13th Centuries AD. (CCC Papers, 6.) Tallinn.
Spirģis, R. 2008. Bruņrupuču saktas ar krūšu važiņrotām un lībiešu kultūras attīstība Daugavas lejtecē 10.–13. gadsimtā. Latvijas Vēstures Institūta apgāds, Rīga.