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Description: | A Roman cast copper alloy finger ring. In plan the ring is sub-oval on the exterior and interior. The bezel is a sub-circle with a smaller circular cell or perforation in the centre. The cell has dark blue or black glassy fragments, which may have been a gem setting or enamel. The reverse of the bezel is encrusted but there is a void which indicates the bezel has a perforation rather than a cell. The shoulders are undecorated and narrow, forming the loop, which is oval in section. The surface of the ring has red copper corrosion and only traces of a heavy mid green patina. It measures 24.82mm wide across the loop and 12.35mm long across the bezel, from the bezel to the back of the loop it is 18.81mm and it weighs 5.3g. The finger ring probably dates to the Roman period. Other finger rings, for example No. 77 illustrated in Seeley, F. (2004 'The Small Finds' in Blagg, T., Plouviez, J., and Tester, A Excavations at a Romano-British settlement at Hacheston, Suffolk in 1973-4 East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 106) has a sub-circular bezel, but this one has moulded shoulders and d-sectioned loops. No. 78 from the same publication has a similar decorated and shaped bezel. Neither of these rings dated to early than the 2nd century, therefore the recorded example may date to the 3rd and 4th centuries.A very similar finger ring was recorded from Bidford-On-Avon WAW-28D095, which had a perforation in the centre and was similarly corroded.
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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