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Description: | 2011 T281Roman silver finger ring with circular hoop of square section. The shoulders are keeled and expand to two conflated ovoid mouldings decorated with incised grooves, now rather worn and difficult to make out.Discussion: the two mouldings rather resemble conjoined snake's heads, although normally these have raised mouldings whilst these examples are completely flat. Nevertheless it appears to be a variant of Johns Type Bii (Johns 1996, 45). For a parallel see Johns 1997, no. 273.Date: 1st to 2nd centuries ADWt.: 3.5g Ext. d.: 21.0mm Int. d.: 16.7mmReferences: Johns, C.M. 1996. The jewellery of Roman Britain. London, UCL Press.Johns, C.M. 1997. The Snettisham Roman Jeweller's hoard, London: British Museum PressNote: this items is made substantially of silver and is more than 300 years old, and thus qualifies as treasure as stipulated in the Treasure Act 1996.Dr Richard HobbsCurator, Romano-British Collections, Prehistory & Europe, The British Museum13th July 2011
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