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Description: | A Roman gold earring. The earring is made of round gold wire up to 1.25mm thick that has been formed into a complete loop. It is decorated with three evenly spaced groups of grooved lines. It weighs 1.27g and has a length of 21mm. Although the object is a complete loop, it is clear from grave finds that it functioned as an earring. For example a grave discovered in Lexden Road, Colchester, contained a pair of these rings located to either side of the skull close to the ears. Presumably such earrings were inserted into the ear lobes and then had their ends secured by winding them around the loop. This design of earring is dated to the 3rd century AD and is an example of Allason-Jones Type 3. Allason-Jones, L. 1989. Ear-Rings in Roman Britain, pages 5-6 and page 49, nos 27-28. | 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
299 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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