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Description: | A cast copper alloy finger ring. The bezel is a circular forming a concave circular cell. Within the cell there are traces of a black coloured deposited which is likely to be a fixative rather than decorative. The edges of the bezel are heavily abraded. Only one should remains and this is a sub-oval shape and is undecorated. The loop is missing. The surface of the ring is abraded, but traces of a dark green coloured patina. It measures 11.02mm long from the upper edge to the lower edge of the bezel, and it is 14.9mm wide from the bezel side to the outer edge of the shoulder. It weighs 1.77g. The finger ring is Roman. Crummy (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust), describes many decorative Roman copper alloy finger rings such as this date to the 3rd and 4th centuries.
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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