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Description: | Finger ring.Severely damaged and distorted gold finger ring. Oval to round hoop narrowing down to a parallel-sided band at both sides. The band was torn open at some point and while its shorter side accordingly ends in a ragged edge, the longer end has a straight, cut-off edge.The bezel carries a central, damaged glass cabochon, (now) dark brown, in a dog-tooth setting surrounded by a fine beaded wire. Around the cabochon, 14 gold pellets - of varying sizes and some of them squashed and abraded - are placed inside beaded wire filigree. Originally, there was at least one more pellet, on one of the shoulders of the ring. The bezel is edged by a gold ribbon, which is damaged, splitting and squashed in places and which extends along the ring's band. The back of the bezel is plain but scratched.A central, two-stranded braid runs along the band and butts onto the cabochon's setting. The braid is edged on either side by a gold ribbon, with a third ribbon placed on top of the braid. This arrangement is heavily damaged, abraded, and missing in places. The band is somewhat twisted and has a number of transverse cracks, visible on its back.Note: The object has been modified after its discovery. As magnification shows clearly, a portion of undetermined size was sawn off from the longer end of the damaged band before the ring was submitted to the British Museum.
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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