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Description: | Roman copper alloy finger-ring key. Very heavy hoop with a flattened D-section (8.5 x 2.5mm), an oval internal diameter 18 x 16mm which is shorter at right-angle to the ward. Below the ward is a rectangular bezel-like panel (13 x 7mm) which is decorated with double V-shaped grooves below a horizontal groove. The 7.5mm square ward, which sits on a narrow neck, is decorated with V-shaped nicks along the top edge and upper parts of the sides and by a horizontal groove near the base. There is a U-shaped aperture with a broad groove in the centre of the base. A similar example was recovered from a 4th ?earlier 5th-century grave at Colchester (Crummy 1983, 85, fig. 89 no. 2170). | 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: | 300
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Erica Darch | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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