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Description: | Roman silver finger ring of 'Brancaster' type, complete although heavily squashed. The ring consists of a wide flat hoop which expands slightly towards to the bezel; in profile, the ring would originally have been circular. The shoulders are each decorated with a neatly incised and punched design of curves, rings and semi circular motifs all set within an incised double-line triangular 'pediment'. The raised circular solid box bezel is incised with an intaglio which features two opposed busts with Corinthian helmets of punched dots with an uncertain motif between, all inside a border of punched pellets. The ring has strong parallels with an example in the Amesbury hoard, Wiltshire (Johns 1996, 54; BM 1857,0630,2).Date: late 4th century AD. Text by Richard Hobbs, Curator Romano-British Collections, British Museum.
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