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| Clickable links | General Bead History |
| History of the glass bead | An very useful and concise history of beads |
| Pre-historic - Iron Age | |
| Wiltshire Heritage Museum | A nice collection of Iron Age beads and personal items |
| Celtic | |
| Romano-British | |
| Wiltshire Heritage Museum | Excellent images of various Roman pieces |
| Anglo-Saxon | |
| Glass and amber crafts | Regia Anglorum's reference page on glass and beads |
| Viking-era | |
| Arkeodok | Fantastic reference source for Viking-era beads |
| Viking beads | The Viking Answer Lady - a great stop for all things Viking |
| Ribe beads (pdf) | Fantastic PDF on the Ribe Post Office finds including good information on beads |
| Ragnarr's beads | Extremely thorough discussion and printable bead recognition charts of Viking beads |
| Female Viking Burial | PDF of a 1987 report of a Viking grave on the Isle of Lewis with a significant number of beads |
| General discussions on beads | |
| Beads and necklaces | The invaluable Florilegium site with compilations of many online discussions of various topics |
| Online bibliographies and links pages | |
| The Jewelry Historian | A useful list of books regarding jewellery and beads |
| Gudrun's Viking Links | A good list of links for Viking information with a substantial bead section |