Part of the rim of a glass beaker which has been decorated by cutting out oval-shaped facets from the surface of the glass.
A fragment from a pottery bowl which has been glazed. Pieces of Roman glazed vessels are very rarely found, but we do have evidence that they were made at Holt, 12 miles (7 km) from Chester in the late first and early-second centuries. The colour of the glazes varied from light yellow to green and dark brown.
This small copper-alloy stud with a stylised face may have been used to decorate a soldier’s belt or ‘apron’ - a series of vertical leather straps which hung from the belt. It is thought that these ‘aprons’ were worn for protection or possibly represented a mark of status.
A microlith is a small stone tool, typically knapped of flint or chert. They were produced during the middle stone age (Mesolithic).
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