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Description: | Copper alloy ring decorated with five 'tick' shaped indents. One indent contains a thin layer of silver and traces of silver are visible in the other indents. The ring has an internal diameter of 18.0mm and an external diameter of 22.2.mm. It is 2.3mm thick, 6.0mm wide and weighs 8.3g. It is rectangular in section.
Dr M. Henig has suggested this may be paralleled by an item found on excavations in Fishbourne (Rudkin and Henig 1996:227-229, pl.31) which is similar in dimensions but much more elaborately decorated with gold inlay intarsia work. He suggests both items were used as 'washers' on staffs or bars assembled in sections. Such bars were found on folding items of furniture such as the folding stool found in one of the Bartlow Barrows which had some bronze fittings (Gage 1836, p304 pl.32). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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