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Description: | A copper alloy finger ring, with an integral bezel. The hoop has broken and has been bent out of shape. The hoop widens to form the shoulders and the bezel. The bezel proper has a circular high relief fitting, which contains four roughly triangular fields. Each of thee four fields has been infilled with enamel. The top and bottom fields have been infilled with a blue enamel. The two fields to the side (next to the shoulders) have been infilled with green enamel. The diameter of the bezel is 8.61mm.The shoulders of the bezel have been decorated with triangular fields which again appear in high relief. A circular sitting has been positioned either side of the bezel inside these triangular fields. The two settings are both filled with the same blue enamel or possibly paste. Some other decoration also fills the triangular fields, but due to corrosion this is rather undecipherable. The low relief areas on the bezel and the shoulders have been gilded. The copper alloy is otherwise a dark greenish-brown colour. This finger ring is likely to date to the late medieval or early post-medieval period, but an early Roman date cannot be ruled out.
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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