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Description: | Description: A complete silver late Roman finger ring. The metal looks brittle and has a light grey patina there are transverse cracks across the centre of the back of the hoop and across each shoulder. The ring has been squashed; presumably causing the cracks mentioned above, and is now oval in shape. The hoop is rectangular in cross-section and flares from 3.8mm in width at the back of the hoop to 8.7mm in width across the bezel. Both shoulders are decorated with three parallel longitudinal grooves. The rectangular bezel has vertical grooves delimiting it and an incised cross in its centre. There are also worn short transverse grooves along one horizontal edge of the bezel.
Discussion: This finger ring is similar to other simple rings decorated with notches and grooves, from Hacheston, although these parallels are copper-alloy (Blagg, Plouviez, Tester, 2004, 112-115, fig 75, no 55).
It is also similar to another silver example from Henley, Suffolk (see SF6180). The shoulders of this example are also decorated with longitudinal grooves, which follow the flaring line of the shoulder. It has a roughly square bezel, which is further engraved with short lines, which in this case may be lettering.
Dimensions: The ring measures 27.5mm in length and 16.1mm in width externally and 24.3mm in length and 12.8mm in width internally.
The precious metal content of this finger ring fulfils the requirements of the Treasure Act in that it is greater than 10 %. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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