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Description: | A cast copper alloy finger ring. The bezel is a horizontal oval, with an oval cell in the centre. There are no traces of enamel or a stone in the cell. The undecorated shoulders taper towards the loop, of which only a small portion remains. The breaks of the loop do not appear to be recent. The loop is a pointed oval in section. The surface of the ring is abraded, but has traces of a mid brown/green coloured patina. It measures 11.86mm long from the upper edge to the lower edge of the bezel, and it is 23.46mm wide from each apex of the shoulders/loops. It weighs 3.3g.
The finger ring is Roman. A similar example is illustrated in the Colchester report (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust), No. 1786, which has an oval bezel Johns (Johns, C. 1996 The Jewellery of Roman Britain UCL Press) illustrates similar finger rings, Figure 3.1 describing them as being Henig type II rings which date to the 1st or 2nd centuries. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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