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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman finger ring with incised decoration in the form of a bird motif on the oval, flat bezel. Seen as a bird in flight if looked at horizontally, with wings out-stretched. The kinked shoulders of the wings suggest that it probably dates from the 3rd century AD. Similar examples with oval bezels, but glass intaglios, have been found at Nornour on the Isles of Scilly (Cornish Archaeology Journal, No.39-40, 2000-1, p.29-31, Nos.1-3).
It weighs 4.72 g. Its bezel is 18 mm long and 14 mm wide and the diameter of the loop is 23 mm and its thickness 2 mm. | 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: | 200
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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