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Description: | RB silver finger-ring of Brancaster type, broken into 4 pieces. The rectangular bezel is raised about 3mm from the hoop, and has surface measurements of 11x9mm. The width of the back of the hoop is 3mm. This is a fine example of an inscribed Brancaster-type ring: the type is discussed in Johns 1996 pp.53-5 and there is a stylistic link with the shoulder-decoration of one of the three Amesbury rings. The bezel is bordered with tiny dots and has an inscription in two lines divided by a plain horizontal line, all laid in niello. The legend is VTI / FELIX (use (this) happily), a standard formula very common on jewellery from 3rd century onwards. The shoulders bear 3 rows of 3 shallow indentations with dotted lines between, then a row of dotted lines, 2 plain grooves, a space, and 4 plain grooves. There may be further traces of niello in this decoration, but that is uncertain. The ring dates to the end of the 4th century AD or beginning of the 5th. 98% silver, internal diam. 22mm | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 370
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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