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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman finger ring of Henig type XII, missing its (probably glass) setting and just under half of the hoop - the bezel and shoulders survive.
The bezel is oval in shape, 12.3x8.9mm and 1mm deep. The ring measures 20.9mm at its widest (diameter), and the hoop is 11.8mm either side of the bezel, narrowing to 5.7mm at the breaks. It weighs 4.23g.
On the underside of the ring, beneath the bezel, the edges are slightly chamfered. The ring is extremely pitted, and this may obsure chamfering (which may equally be worn away) on the other side.
The bezel has several grooves for keying the paste which would have held the cut glass or stone intaglio.
Finger rings from excavations in Colchester (Crummy 1983) date to the late 3rd/ 4th century. | 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: | 270
408 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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