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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy penannular ring or armlet in the form of a snake, but missing its head, decorated with oblique grooves, emulating scales, along the top of the body. The ends of the terminals are missing, and there are concave facets at each end which suggests that there may have been some material mounted between them or in each terminal. The hoop is oval in section with a slightly flattened inner edge. The size of the ring is too big for a man's finger which suggests that it was originally a longer and more open penannular bracelet which has since been pushed together, perhaps when the terminals were damaged.It differs in style from flattened Roman snake bracelets but does look more like the smaller examples of Roman rings in the form of a snake. An example of the latter is illustrated in Crummy (1995) on page 48, Fig.50, No.1758, dated to the Roman period, where the author feels that the ring has been cut down from an armlet.An example of a bracelet or armlet with similar moulded decoration is illustrated in Bishop (1996) on page 50, Fig.29, No.296, which is dated to the Roman period.
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