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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy finger ring of Roman date (100-400 AD). The fragment consists of the shoulder and bezel of an abraded finger ring. The hoop of the ring is lost but enough survives to suggest that it flares (expands) at the shoulders of the to form a relatively flat near-circular decorated bezel. The bezel is an abraded oval (although originally circular) in plan and sub-rectangular in cross section. . The external face of the ring has been decorated with a series of inlaid geometric designs. These consist of a recessed central pellet around which three concentric circle expand. The inner and outer of these are enamelled; the inner green and outer blue. The central pellet and the second circle are recessed - possibly to hold silver wire. The blue enamel is chipped in places and is a milky colour. The shoulders of the ring are also decorated with a cast design comprising raised tranverse, slightly crescentic, ridges which echo the shape of the bezel. The two breaks at the shoulders are both heavily abraded and probably occurred in antiquity. The ring fragment has also been abraded in the soil and has lost much of its original dark green surface patina. A mid green orange / red coloured corrosion is present on abraded surfaces. No direct parallels have been found for this ring, similar concentric designs on finger rings are often dated to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.The ring fragment measures 18.7mm length, 12.1mm width across bezel, 5.0mm width across soldiers, it is 3.7mm thick across bezel and 4.0mm thick across shoulder. The finger ring weighs 2.73 grams
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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