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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy finger ring of Roman date. Most of the hoop and the glass/enamel setting are missing due to old breaks. The surviving areas at the shoulders of the hoop are oval shaped in section and have extensive moulded decoration. This comprises transverse moulded projections, from which the front face of the hoop has incised cabed decoration extending towards the old breaks of the hoop. The bezel is circular in form with a central circular recess that probably once contained enamelling or a glass setting that is now missing due to old breaks. It measures 18.12mm in length, 10.56mm in width/diameter at bezel, 1.74mm in thickness at bezel, and weighs 1.53g.This is a Roman finger ring that is near identical to an example from Colchester (Crummy, 1983: no. 1785). The Colchester example suggests a date range in the 3rd-4th centuries AD for the current object.
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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