Blue glass tessera

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Blue glass tessera

This small glass cube measures about 1cm and is one cube used to make a mosaic. Tesserae are usually made from pottery or stone as they need to be hard-wearing. This glass tessera is one of only a few known from Roman Britain. It was probably used in a mosaic on a wall, possibly as a detail of a human eye.

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