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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy finger ring of 2nd Century Roman date (AD 100-200). The bezel is a horizontal oval, with an oval cell in the centre. This cell is divided vertically and horizontally by four lentoid shaped pellets. The divided cells would have been filled with a coloured glass / enamel or paste. All that survives of this is a light grey cream coloured corrosion product. The undecorated shoulders taper towards the loop, of which only a small portion remains. The breaks of the loop are old and patinated. The loop has a D shaped section. The hoop is incomplete and so overall size is difficult to estimate, however, it seem to be a slight ring - possibly belonging to either a woman or child. The surface of the ring has an mid grey/green partially polished but abraded patina. A similar ring is illustrated in the Colchester report (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust), No. 1786, which has an oval bezel. Johns (Johns, C. 1996 The Jewellery of Roman Britain UCL Press) illustrates similar finger rings, Figure 3.1 describing them as being Henig type II rings which date to the 1st or 2nd centuries.The ring measures 6.6mm long from the upper edge to the lower edge of the bezel, and it is 19.0mm wide from each apex of the shoulders/loops. The bezel is 2.6mm thick whilst the hoop is 1.7mm. The ring weighs 1.4 grams. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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