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Description: | A damaged strip of decorated cast copper alloy bent around into a crude ring with overlapping terminals, possibly a finger ring of Roman date. The strip has damaged edges and is now variable in width, with a maximum of 10.7mm wide. It has a flat inner side and slightly convex outer face and is 1.6mm thick in the centre. Around the front runs a decorative panel marked by indented lines at the top and bottom. There are multiple evenly spaced lines running at an angle across the panel, these are only visible in places possibly due to wear and corrosion but it is also possible they only covered parts of the panel with the rest being plain or decorated in other ways. The ends are slightly rounded but do not appear to be the original ends of the strip as the panel runs right up to them.Strip bracelets of similar form are a late Roman fashion and multiple examples exist of fragments of such bracelets being converted into finger rings e.g. HAMP-F29F04, ESS-867DE4 and SWYOR-BB68D3 on this database.
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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