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Description: | Description: A gold probable finger ring now distorted, consisting of a slender twisted ribbon of gold with tiny flat-backed snake heads in low relief at the terminals. The rendering of the snake heads is reduced to a pattern of swellings, curves and lines. Discussion: This finger ring is probably of Catherine John's type Bii (Johns, 1997, 36, fig 9), being of penannular form with two confronted snakes head terminals. It is similar in style to over thirty examples from the Snettisham hoard. However, these are all in silver, indeed no published example in gold of type Bii could be found, although there are examples in copper-alloy (Johns, 1997,100-105). Dimensions: It is 37.55mm in length, 2.88mm in width across the hoop and 4.36mm in width across the snakes head terminals. It is 2.49g in weight. The precious metal content of this finger ring fulfils the requirements of the Treasure Act in that it is greater than 10 %.
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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