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Description: | Cast copper alloy ring probably dating from the Late Iron Age or early Roman period, that is c. 100BC-AD200. The ring is complete with a very smooth, shiny chocolate-brown patina. The casting seems were smoothed down and the surface of the ring looks and feels extremly worn. The outside of the ring is decorated with two thin parallel incised lines on either side of the flattened casting seams. Between the two lines appears to be what looks like a untidy zigzag pattern made up of small dots which is quite clear in one part of the ring, but very worn in others. The ring could have had multiple uses as horse harness or clothes fitting and it is difficult to speculate what it was originally made for.
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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