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Description: | A copper alloy finger ring of probable Roman date. The finger ring is formed from a cast length of semi-circular (D shaped) section copper alloy wire. The wire is 3.5mm wide and 3.6mm thick. It has been bent to form a sub-circular ring with a single turn with overlapping terminals. Each terminal has been clipped and filed into a flattened U shape, but there seems to be no cast or incised decoration on either of them. The ring has a maximum outer diameter of 25.3mm and a maximum internal diameter of 20.2mm. It weighs 3.59 grams.
The ring is a mid green brown colour with a well developed patina which covers the majority of the artefact. However, this patina has been badly abraded in a number of places and new light-green blue active powdery corrosion is present. The ring has also been slightly crushed resulting in the shape now being sub-oval in plan.
A similar ring formed from a single turn can be seen in Lindsay Allason-Jones and Roger Miket's 'Catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman fort,' 1984: pp 125-127, figures 3.199 - 3.202. Other similar rings can be seen on the PAS website from Cheshire, reference: LVPL-038103 and Shropshire reference: HESH-D25E35. All of these examples are dated to the Roman period. | 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: | 45
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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