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Description: | This copper-alloy item is a broken portion of a larger object. It probably forms part of a closed ring or terret, and presents the portion of an ovate ring. The longer, base-line axis presents first a section that is flattened or rectangular, being 5mm thick and 8.5mm broad over a distance of 15mm. The flattened faces of the bar then join on to a bar of circular section, at first marked by a band of 4mm depth and 9mm diameter, which then resolves into the rounded and curving portion of the ring (the rising and more tightly recurved part of the ovoid), which tapers in diameter from 8mm to 5mm. At this point there is a further ornamental swollen band, 5mm in bradth and 7mm in diameter, all part of the single casting, beyond which the metal is broken away. (All in all the surviving portion of the ring represents about one-third of the lost total.) Beyond this fracture one can see the scar of the missing narrower continuation of the bar, 5mm in diameter, showing that the ornamental band is set non-concentrically in relation to it, but off-centre so that the outer portion projects. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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