http://www.users.skynet.be/jpwhome/

Personal Collector's page of Early Beads. Does not provide any documentation on the beads, but has some great pictures of beads that can be documented through other sources.

http://www.edgarlowen.com/a41beads.html

A COLLECTION OF FINE ANCIENT BEADS
The Property of A Private European Collector
Does not provide any documentation on the beads, but has some great pictures of beads that can be documented through other sources.

http://www.thecityreview.com/s99antgc.html

Ancient Glass from the G. Sangiori Collection sold by Christie's Auction house. One incredible example of a Phoenician Head Bead, and another beautiful example of a Roman Glass Mosaic Inlay.

http://www.unc.edu/~jmathes/main.html

Celtic Glass This appears to be the beginning of a research paper styled web site. Nice page, footnoted (YEAH!) with some of the only references to purple transparent glass items I've found so far. Need to look up original sources.

http://www.batharchaeology.org.uk/guides.htm

Bath Archaeological Trust Listing of archaeological sites and an overview of contents. Useful as a guide to locate particular archaeological digs including glass finds for further research.

http://www.regia.org/glass.htm

Regia Anglorum Glass and Amber An article by the Regia Anglorum society about Anglo-Saxon glass and amber. Good pictures, does not include reference information.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MelanieWilson/beads.htm

Melanie Wilson's page on beads. A fellow SCAdian, and very knowledgable individual.

http://www.hebrewhistory.org/factpapers/glass6-I.html

Glassmaking: A Judaic Tradition - Part 1 The Biblical Period Great chapter (from a larger book) by Samuel Kurinsky. Written from the Judaic perspective, it does include lots of interesting information. (Footnoted!)

http://www.hebrewhistory.org/factpapers/glass6-IIa.html

Glassmaking: A Judaic Tradition - Part 2 The Common Era

http://www.ripon.edu/clark_collection/BEAD.HTML

Clark Collection at Ripon College Mostly stone beads, one example of a black/red spiral design bead

http://www.global-flamework.com/history.htm

History of Lampworking Article by Robert A. Mickelsen Very good article covering beginning to modern times.

http://www.vml.de/english/msvf/msvf15.htm

Glass Beads of the pre-Roman Iron Age III

http://www.vml.de/german/msvf/i-msvf15.htm

Index of the German Text (If I get it, I need a translator !)

http://www.vikinganswerlady.org/

Mistress Gunnora's website. She has a great article on Viking beads and necklaces.

http://www.cmog.org/

The Corning Museum of Glass

http://www.ancienttouch.com/beads.htm

Ancient Touch Commercial site that deals in ancient beads. Great pictures and good beads that are referenced with dates, but no source material verifying dates. Many of the styles can be documented through other resources.

http://www.thebeadmuseum.org/

The Bead Museum and Study Center No documentation currently, but a good site to watch for exhibits etc. I will be visiting their History of Beads Exhibit in April

http://www.wheatonvillage.org/

Wheaton Village, a glassworking collective in New Jersey. No history on the site, but this is where Arab boy is currently employed and creates his period drinking vessels

http://www.thebeadsite.com/MGCOLDEX.html

Color plates for the Margaretologist Published by the Center for Bead research, the Margaretologist is a publication relating to the study of beads. Often these articles fall outside of our period, but great reading just the same.

http://www.medievalbeads.com

A great site on Medieval Beads and beadwork by Lady Grizel of the Middle Kingdom. Not a lot on making beads, but a lot on their application.

http://www.thebeadsite.com

The Center for Bead Research. Awesome! I can not say anything else about this site. Pete Francis, Jr. is wonderful, and a credit to the bead research community.