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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman finger ring with incised decoration in the form of a bird motif on the oval, flat bezel. Seen as a bird in flight if looked at horizontally, with wings out-stretched. The kinked shoulders of the wings suggest that it probably dates from the 3rd century AD. A similar example of a copper alloy finger ring with an oval bezel, but with a setting for a glass intaglio, has been found at Nornour on the Isles of Scilly (Cornish Archaeology Journal, No.39-40, 2000-1, p.30-31, Fig.11, No.3).It weighs 4.72 g. Its bezel is 18 mm long and 14 mm wide and the diameter of the loop is 23 mm and its thickness 2 mm.See CORN-EC8E36 for a similar finger ring that was found near a Roman Kräftig-profilierte type brooch and a denarius of Trajan, both dating from the late first to the early second century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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