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So, this little girl had a necklace and some of the beads were gold-in-glass beads and
you’ve got a tiny bit of gold in a glass bead so it would have glittered and been quite
a pretty thing to see. These are exotic beads in Britain so maybe her parents have bought
them somewhere or brought them into the country. She also had this multicoloured larger bead
and those beads, we think, are amulets. So, if you look at this bead, it looks a little
bit like and eye and during Roman times people were quite nervous and quite superstitious
and they thought that people could give you the evil eye and make you ill. And we think
that these types of beads were worn to protect you from the evil eye.