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Description: | A copper alloy finger ring of probable Roman date. The finger ring is formed from a cast length of semi-circular (D shaped) section copper alloy sheet or thick wire. The wire is 3.3mm wide and 3.1mm thick. It has been bent to form a sub-circular ring of two turns with an overlapping terminal. Each terminal has been clipped and filed into a flattened U shape, but there seems to be no cast or incised decoration on either of them. The ring has an outer diameter of 26.2mm and an internal diameter of 19.8mm. It weighs 6.5 grams. The ring is a mid green brown colour with a well developed even patina which covers the majority of the artefact. However, this patina has been badly abraded in several places and new light-green blue active powdery corrosion is present. The ring has also been slightly crushed resulting in the ring now being sub-oval in plan. This damage has also meant that the gaps between the turns have been slightly opened up. A similar ring formed from a single turn can be seen in Lindsay Allason-Jones and Roger Miket's 'Catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman fort,' 1984: pp 125-127, figures 3.199 - 3.202. An even closer parallel can be seen on the PAS website from Cheshire, reference: LVPL-038103. All of these examples are dated to the Roman period.
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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