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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy finger ring with engraved intaglio stone/ gem setting (length of ring from shoulder to shoulder: 20.2mm; width at widest point of bezel: 13.9mm; thickness at bezel: 3.8mm; weight: 3.66g). Only the top of the ring remains and has broken just below the shoulders either side as the arms start to curl back in on themselves. The original internal diameter may have been approximately 18mm. There is incised curved linear and dotted decoration to either side of the central engraved setting. This decoration stops as it meets the shoulders and is replaced by a line of incised dots along the width of the ring. Beyond this line travelling further down the arms, there are incised ridges running down the length of the arm, but the ring is broken just beneath. The blue stone setting is worn and damaged but the outline of a running figure (probably) staged left can still be seen. The figure is possibly wearing a helmet and is holding something to their left side but it is too unclear to recognise. Similar examples have been found in Colchester (Crummy, 1983, pages 48-9, Fig 50, Ref No 1786); Lowbury Hill, Berkshire (Atkinson, 1916, plate XI, Ref Nos 11 & 12) and South Shields (Allason-Jones & Miket, 1984, pages 123-4, Ref Nos 184, 186 & 187). Other examples can be seen as part of the British Museum collection (Marshall, 1907, Plate XIV, Ref no 493). Guy de la Bedoyere illustrates a similar form of ring and described it as a 'circular ring expanding at the bezel: a type typical of the second century' (Bedoyere, 1989, page 122, Ref no 73a). The ring could also be classed under Martin Henig's typology as Class II, of probable 2nd-3rd century date. 'The Romano-British Site on Lowbury Hill in Berkshire'; Donald Atkinson; 1916; Plate XI, Ref Nos 11 & 12; published by University College Reading. | 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
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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