Wedge shape amber pendant with hole for suspension drilled from both sides.
A relatively slender example. Described in AY 17/14 as being worn around the hole and on the flat surfaces.
Waterman 1959 describes this as a bead and details this, others, and their find spot: 'It has been suggested that the Clifford Street finds indicated the existence nearby of artisan's workshops, by reason of the numerous unfinished or spoiled objects included with the material recovered in 1882, and it is clear that the manufacture of amber and glass beads was carried out in the vicinity. Much unworked amber, together with rough-outs and spoilt and finished beads of this material, as well as glass slag, glass 'drops', unperforated or imperfectly pierced and finished glass beads in fragmentary condition point to this conclusion. The finished [amber] beads are of two forms; type 1, ideally of truncated pyramidal shape but showing considerable variation [as this example]; type 2, cylindrical or disc-shaped varying thickness and cross-section. The method of manufacture appears to have been the same: to cut the raw amber roughly to shape, to bore the perforation (during which process many of the beads appear to have been broken and discarded) and finally to grind or polish the surface to a smooth finish... The edges of beads of type 1 are often bevelled or slightly rounded... Amber beads of type 1 are known during Viking times in Scandinavia...'
