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Description: | Fragment of Roman gold finger ring. The fragment consists of two box settings soldered to a backplate composed of a rectangular strip of sheet gold. One setting is a rectangular cell set with a piece of blue/green glass, the other a rounded box setting, now rather distorted, the setting from which is now missing. The angles between the cells have granulation in the form of gold pellets, some of which has broken away. There is a clean and regular break at the circular box setting end, which might be deliberate; the other end is also broken. It is highly likely that originally there was a matching circular box setting on the other side of the rectangular setting. Discussion: the fragment is almost identical to the bezel of a complete finger-ring from the Thetford treasure (BM 1981,0201.14), a ring with a hoop of twisted or roped wires. The bezel of this ring consists of a similar arrangement of box settings in this instance all set with green glass (Johns and Potter 1983, 88-90). Date: 4th century ADL.: 12.6mm W.: 7.2mm Wt.: 1.1g Note: this item is made substantially of gold and is more than 300 years old, and thus qualifies as treasure as stipulated in the Treasure Act 1996. Dr Richard Hobbs Dr Helen Geake
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