NEW LIMITED! Ancient Roman Glass Beaded necklace, 16" Strand

While we have created so many Roman Glass pieces using specific, bookmatched pairs for earrings or unique OOAK pieces for necklaces, we thought it would be nice to have just some simple Roman Glass beaded necklaces to either wear on their own or layered with other matching pieces!

These beautiful, smooth beaded fragments are from ancient broken vessels that are 900-2700 years old and we have strung them at 16" lengths!

Roman glass is the result of a stunning piece of historic craftsmanship dating back 2,700 years to the time of the Roman Empire. The people of the Roman Empire used more glass than any other ancient civilization. The same sands used to make the glass helped preserve it through the centuries, shaping and molding it into the beautiful pieces excavated today. Two thousand years of burial in minerals and soil combined with wind and weather has resulted in pigmented deposits on the surface of the glass. Through oxidation, the pigment has developed into beautiful patinas of blues and greens, although other rarer colors can still bebeautiful patinas of blues and greens, although other rarer colors can still be found.