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Description: | A cast copper alloy finger ring, with a thin D-shaped section. The ring has a large oval bezel which measures 10.4mm x 7.5mm. The bezel has been engraved with an incised design. The design appears to depict a letter V inside a border. Either side of the bezel there are two moulded collars. There are no other markings on the exterior of the finger ring. The copper alloy is otherwise a dark reddish-brown colour.Ralph Jackson (curator of the Romano-British Collections at the British Museum) believes rings of this type are probably Roman in date. He states: "although it is difficult to be certain, it is just possible that the design is a rather rudimentarily-incised version of the early Christian chi-rho motif - the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek (X and P) superimposed... with a symetrical arrangement of four 'flecks' in the field."Similar finger rings which have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database include SOM-0B9310 (from Bawdrip, Somerset), SOMDOR-EF0427 (from Bishops Hull, Somerset) and SOMDOR1570 (from Dorchester, Dorset).
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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