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Description: | A silver finger-ring with ball and beaded wire decoration on the top of the hoop and recurved snake=s head terminals. The decoration on the bezel consists of a central and two smaller balls to either side, separated by two smaller pellets. Each ball has a wire support running underneath it. Both snake heads are intact but detached, and one has part of the neck missing. There is also a roundel which probably sat originally on top of one of the snake=s neck - the other is missing. The ring is a variant of Johns Type Biv.Dimensions:Internal dimensions: width: 19mm; height: 18.3mm; external dimensions: width: 23mm; height: 22mm (to top of hoop); 26.5mm (to top of beaded decoration); weight: 10.99g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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