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Description: | A copper alloy ring with bezel or union formed by closely-wrapped terminals of the rod from which it is formed. The rod has a consistent 2mm gauge, and the diameter of the ring (outer measurement) is 25mm-26mm, and in fact a suitable size for a finger-ring. However such rings may also have been used as suspension rings for toilet articles (see the assemblage from the late grave at Boss Hall, Bramford, near Ipswich) or as terminals for festoons of beads or hair ornaments, or within necklaces (see Hadleigh Road cemetery, Ipswich). In both of these parallel instances silver wire rings with wound terminals occur. The present ring, which has neatly and evenly (i.e. equally-)wound terminals, is probably of sixth to seventh century 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: | 500
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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