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Description: | An incomplete gold Roman ear ring.Identified under the Teasure Act at the British Museum. Record updated 19/3/04.
"A Roman gold ear-ring of rectangular form, slightly dented and distorted and lacking its hook. It comprises two plates joined at the margins. The front-plate is embossed with a decorative swagged border framing a central rectangular box-setting. The setting is now empty. There is a central torn hole in the back-plate marking the former point of attachment of the hook. The ear-ring is Allason-Jones Type 11 (Lindsay Allason-Jones Ear-rings in Roman Britain, Oxford 1989).
Date: Probably 2nd-3rd century AD.
Dimensions: 12.4 x 13.0 x c.2.2 mm.
Weight: 0.56 g.
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated that the gold content is approximately 89%.
Ralph Jackson
Dept. of Prehistory and Europe
British Museum" | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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