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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy finger ring. The bezel is broken at the mid point and is abraded, but it appears to have a large oval cell with traces of a white opaque glass or enamel. The remaining shoulder is slightly moulded forming a '>-' on the exterior. The shoulder then tapers towards the loop, which is 'D' shaped in section. Only a small portion remains of the loop, and the break is not recent. The surface of the ring is abraded, but has patches of a well developed dark green coloured patina. It measures 15.27mm long from the upper edge to the lower edge of the bezel, and it is 19.34mm wide from each apex of the shoulders/loops. It weighs 4g. The finger ring is Roman. A similar example is illustrated in the Colchester report (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust), No. 1786, which has an oval bezel Johns (Johns, C. 1996 The Jewellery of Roman Britain UCL Press) illustrates similar finger rings, Figure 3.1 describing them as being Henig type II rings which date to the 1st or 2nd centuries.
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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