2nd-4th century AD and later. A restrung designer necklace of tubular glass and other beads with four tongue-shaped dangles, each with a glass bead pendant, gold filigree, applied lapis lazuli and other later annular beads; ten white metal melon beads; the centrepiece a rectangular gold pendant plaque with inset schist disc and articulated schist dangle with shallow circular dimples to the obverse. 40.6 grams, 60.5cm (23 3/4"). Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman; acquired from a Sussex lady; previously the property of a gentleman; acquired in the late 1960s-early 1970s.