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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy finger-ring with integral key dating to the Roman period. The hoop has been broken and bent up towards the bezel; it was very delicate, only 1.8mm wide and 0.8mm thick. The shoulders are considerably thicker and are decorated with linear incisions, although these are obscured by corrosion. As with such artefacts the bit protrudes at right angles to the bezel such that the key element lies flat on the finger. The bit is a perforated rectangle (15.2 x 10.8mm), attached to the bezel through a smaller rectangular element (W: 7.2mm). The former features a rectangular perforation in its lower half and an open end caused by a second rectangular removal. Transverse linear incisions decorate the obverse, although, again, corrosion obscures the patterning. This artefact is similar to another which can be found on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, ref.: NLM5850. | Subjects: | Ring | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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