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Description: | Silver finger ring internal dimensions height 15mm, width 21mm, width of bezel 15mm, width of band 5mm, weight 5.59g. Oval shaped bezel this would have held a setting for a stone or intaglio, but only a ring of soldering remains. The shoulders are triangular and flattened, there with four sets of incised lines that expand from the loop outwards towards the bezel, the edges of the shoulders and bezel are foliate, the loop is thick than the rest of the piece 4mm wide and 2mm thick.
An exact parallel was excavated at Lydney Roman Temple, Gloucestershire, this particular example was dated to the late third century to fourth century (Wheeler and Wheeler, 1932, 82, 55), although the 4th century date appears to be rather tentative. A similar example was also excavated in the town of Cirencester (McWhirr, 1986, 105-106), this example was dated to the third century. A third example was excavated from a grave in Colchester the deposit was dated to c320-c450 (Crummy, 1983, 49-50), therefore this style of finger ring is more characteristic of the third century, therefore a third to early fourth century date has been ascribed.
Crummy N, 1983, Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust.
McWhirr, 1986, Houses in Roman Cirencester: Cirencester Excavations III, Cirencester Excavation Committee
Wheeler R E M, 1932, Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, Society of Antiquities of London Research Report.
This artefact was reported under the 1996 Treasure Act. 2007 T261 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adams, Kurt - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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