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Description: | Roman silver coiled finger-ring terminating at one end in a snake head. It has three full coils and two half-coils (for the head and tail). It is slightly squashed so coil 3 is pushed under coil 2.The finger-ring stands 15.3mm high and is 24mm in diameter (internal 19.7mm). It weighs 16.06g. The first coil (behind the head) is especially chunky at 2.8mm thick. The tail (fifth coil) is only 1.8mm thick.The first coil has five equidistant grooves around it, behind the head, presumably decorative. The head itself is diamond-shaped, extending at one point into the hoop instead. It has one punched and irregular eye high on its head and beneath an angle of the head.The hoop, head and tail are all D-shaped in section, being flat on the inside surface and rounded on the outer.The snake-ring fits with Johns Type A (The Jewellery of Roman Britain 1996, p.45 fig.3.3), being a single snake with head at one end and tail at the other.
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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