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Description: | Fragment of a Roman cast copper alloy finger ring. Only the bezel, parts of both shoulders and about a tenth of the hoop survives, the rest is lost to old breaks and the remaining part of the hoop is bent under. The ring has a wide bezel with an oval recess in the centre, probably to hold an intaglio, now lost. The recess contains traces of a white substance, probably a calcium carbonate cement to hold the intaglio. The shoulders taper in width away from the bezel to the hoop and are angled down at c.45 degrees to it. The hoop and shoulders have a slight D-shaped section with flat inner side and slightly convex outer side. It now measures 21.4 mm in length, 11.2 mm in width, 1.8 mm in thickness and weighs 1.72g.The D shaped section to the hoop and shoulders that taper in width along with the recessed oval bezel suggest Henig type III 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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