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Description: | A complete copper-alloy snake head Roman finger ring. This finger ring is now loosely coiled and bent out of shape, it measures c23mm in diameter. It consists of a rectangular shaped strip of copper-alloy, c2.7mm in width, which would have originally have coiled round four times. The inside face is flat and the outer face rounded. One terminal is a rounded tail and the other a pointed oval shaped snakes head. This head measures 9.5mm in length and 5.5mm in width. Two parallel protruding eyes can be seen on either side of the head, there are also transverse grooves behind the eyes. Unusually there is a small copper-alloy rivet through the centre of the head and the tail. Why these rivets are there is unknown but they seem to indicate that the original finger ring was later modified for some reason. | Subjects: | snake | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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