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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman finger-ring. The finger-ring is polygonal in profile with eight external facets. Each face appears from the illustration provided (see notes, below) to be undecorated (with the exception of one which appears to feature a transverse groove) and of approximately the same length. The ring has a rectangular section. It is circular internally with a diameter of c. 16mm. It can be classified as an regular, octagonal Henig type IX/Guiraud type 9a finger-ring. Crummy (1983, 49; ref. 1788) notes that polygonal hoops tend to be 4th century AD in date; Johns (1997, 41), however, suggests a slightly earlier, Middle Empire range. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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