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Description: | Brancaster Type silver finger ring with a square bezel. The face of the bezel in decorated with the recessed image of a human head and shoulders facing right, the basic shape of the head is most likely stamped, with a pointed nose in front and a slight recess for the eye. The hair is made from a series of straight oblique lines. The shoulders are made from a series of oblique incised lines. Behind the head are four elongated pellets. This is all surrounded by a drilled square beaded border that runs around the edge of the bezel.The shoulders are decorated by three groups of transverse bands, these are; a double line of drilled pellets at the top, below the bezel; in the middle is a line of drilled pellets above an incised line; finally at the base of the shoulder are two sets of double incised lines. In between each group of bands is a double banded zigzag line. The rest of the hoop is plain.Martin Henig has identified the ring and commented'I suppose the closest parallel from Britain I know is from Roundway Down, Wiltshire (see Henig 'Art in Roman Wiltshire' pp 122-3 fig.6.14 in P.Ellis Roman Wiltshire and After (Devizes 2001). The Silchester (Senicianus) ring RIB II no.2422.14 and the double portrait Brancaster ring 2422.15 are in this group. Paul Corby Finney 'Senicianus' Ring'Bonner Jahrbucher 194 (1994) pp 175-196 is useful, nice parallels pp.180-183. Personally I think the type could run on into the 5th century'
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