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Description: | Treasure case 2008 T395 - declared Not Treasure
The ring was orginally thought to be Roman but after examination by several curators at the British Museum it was judged to be modern.
The report from the British Museum read:
A gold finger-ring with slender slightly distorted hoop and large flat bezel. The very worn incuse design on the bezel comprises a symmetrical arrangement no longer fully intelligible: a row of five ??exclamation marks?? opposite three triple-dot clusters.
Date: the ring is of modern form and construction.
Dimensions: Width 18 mm. Height 17.8 mm. Bezel 16 x 16.8 mm.
Weight: 6.1 g.
The ring is less than 300 years old and therefore does not qualify as Treasure under the terms of the 1996 Treasure Act.
Ralph Jackson
Dept. of Prehistory & Europe
British Museum
8th January 2009 | 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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