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Description: | Roman ring; Cast copper alloy finger ring with incomplete flat area at the bezel which indicates that this was probably a key ring. The ring is formed of a thin, copper alloy band of oval cross section. The band is flattened at one side and the flat area has a break at one edge, indicating that something has been broken away. I speculate that the missing section may be the tines of a locking key.
Key finger rings have been found in contexts from all times within the Roman period, although they seem to have been most common in the 2nd century.
Diameter 21.4mm, thickness (ring) 2.6mm, length (bezel) 7.8mm, width (bezel) 4.8mm, thickness (bezel) 3.2mm, weight 1.98g
Ref Mills, pages 83 & 84, objects RB249 (a & b) and RB 250 | Subjects: | key | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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