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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 wire. The wire is 3.5mm wide and 3.6mm thick. It has been bent to form a sub-circular ring with a single turn with overlapping terminals. 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 a maximum outer diameter of 25.3mm and a maximum internal diameter of 20.2mm. It weighs 3.59 grams. The ring is a mid green brown colour with a well developed patina which covers the majority of the artefact. However, this patina has been badly abraded in a number of places and new light-green blue active powdery corrosion is present. The ring has also been slightly crushed resulting in the shape now being sub-oval in plan. 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. Other similar rings can be seen on the PAS website from Cheshire, reference: LVPL-038103 and Shropshire reference: HESH-D25E35. 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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