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Description: | Fragment of a Roman cast copper alloy finger ring. Only one edge of the bezel, one shoulder and about a sixth of the hoop survives. The ring has a widened bezel with an oval recess in the centre, probably to hold an intaglio, now lost. The shoulders taper in width away from the bezel to the hoop and there is a continuous curve between the loop, shoulder and bezel. The hoop and shoulders have an oval section with a slightly more convex outer side. It measures 11.5 mm in length, 7.3 mm in width, 4.0mm in thickness and weighs 1.26g.The oval section to the hoop and shoulders that taper evenly in width suggest it is an example of Henig type II dating to the late first to mid-second century AD.
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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