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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman bracelet which has been cut and re-used to create a finger ring, which is the form it now takes. The hoop is rectangular in shape, measuring 12mm in width. The finger ring measures 20mm in external diameter and 18mm in internal diameter. The two ends of the hoop do not quite meet. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with two parallel longitudinal bands of small transverse grooves. One terminal is the original bracelet terminal and has an incised cross across it within a square boarder. There is a circular indentation in the centre and each corner of the cross. There are also a faint traces of a circular groove around the central indentation-perhaps this was originally a ring-and-dot motif.
Copper-alloy bracelets of this width were most common in the 2nd to 4th centuries but it is impossible to know if the re-use of this bracelet to create a finger ring happened at this time during the Roman period or at a later date. | 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: | 100
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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