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Description: | A cast single piece copper alloy Roman finger ring with key attachment. The hoop of the ring has a fairly flat oval section and is 4-5mm thick by 2-3mm wide. It is D-shaped, 26.3mm by 20.8mm, and is plain except for the flat part of the D, which is where the bit is attached. On this part the outside of the hoop is decorated with an incised X bordered by 2 parallel transverse incised lines on either side. The bit is at right-angles to the hoop, and is attached by a 2mm shank. The bit is a rectangular panel, 13.5mm high by 13mm wide and 3mm thick, with a cut out square figure 8.
These ring keys are relatively common Roman finds. There is a very similar unprovenanced example from Aldborough (Bishop 1996 no 471), which in turn is similar to one from a context dated to the late 3rd century AD at Vindolanda. | 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: | 250
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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