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Description: | Fragment of a copper alloy object with snake head terminal and thin rectangular sectioned curving ?neck?, now broken. The features of the snake?s head are represented by incised lines and a raised dot for each eye, with another raised dot on the snout. There are four thin incised diagonal lines on the upper surface of the ?neck?. This may be part of a Roman snake ring, which were introduced in the 1st century and used into the 2nd century (Johns 1996). Length 22.66mm, width 6.91mm, thickness 2.3mm, weight 1.17g | 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: | 50
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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