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Description: | Roman copper alloy finger ring with a unusually large expanded bezel, probably a varient of Henig type I. The hoop is 80% missing due to old breaks. The remaining piece is narrow and oval in section, it widens and thickens evenly through the shoulders to the bezel. The bezel is topped by a thickened and widened circular expansion. The bezel is plain on the top apart from two deep circular pits drilled to one side of the centre. It is 3.5mm by 1.6mm at the break on the hoop, 19.9mm by 17.9mm by 12.1mm in total, it weighs 8.02 grams.The ring may be seen as a variant of Henig's (1978, fig. 1) Type I, which have been dated to the mid to late 1st century AD (ibid. p 36). This type often has a large thickened bezel but it is normally indented to hold enamel or a stone (see, for example GLO-EF08D7, LEIC-23CF11 and WILT-C67B90). Other examples with circular expansions on the bezel are often engraved (such as YORYM-C254A1) or decorated with enamel (LON-880556). The pits seem a bit deep for enamel.
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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