An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.109

v2.c28.109

Among the beads, which represent only a few special types, two eye beads of agate, both from Stratum VIII, etched beads of agate and carnelian from different levels and leech beads from uncertain levels deserve special mention. Beads of faience [16.6], which regained a short-lived popularity in India in the few centuries before and after Christ, are confined to Stratum III. Gold-foil beads, in which a layer of gold foil is pressed on a glass matrix when hot and is laid over again with another coating of transparent glass, have a wide distribution in India; at Ahicchatrā they occur in strata III and I.