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Description: | A cast copper alloy finger ring with sub-circular flat bezel. The bezel is decorated with crudely cut incised lines (a horizontal mid line with an obtuse chevron pointing down to it on one side and an acute chevron on the other. together with a short vertical dash in each of the three spaces formed by it. There is a single vertical dash below the obtuse chevron). The shoulders of the ring are decorated with cast transverse ridges (three on each side). The band is D-sectioned and shows an irregular wear pattern. Similar finger rings have been discovered at Bawdrip, Somerset (SOM-0B9310), Bishops Hull, Somerset (SOMDOR-EF0427) and Corfe Castle, Dorset (SUSS-155FB3), SOMDOR1570.Date: RomanDimensions: 21.63 mm x 10.02 mm x 1.68 mmWeight: 1.81gRalph Jackson (Curator of the Roman-British Collections at the British Museum) believes this ring is probably Roman in date. He states: "although it is difficult to be certain, It is just possible that the design is a rather rudimentarily-incised version of the early Christian chi-rho motif - the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek (X and P) superimposed... with a symetrical arrangement of four 'flecks' in the field."
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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