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Description: | A probable copper alloy spiral finger ring of late Iron Age to early Roman date, about 200 BC to AD 200. The ring is made of copper aloy wire which is circular in section and has a diameter of 3.7mm. It is coiled into a spiral of two and a half turns. Both ends of the wire are broken and patinated. The interal diameter of the ring is just 14.4mm, making it quite small to be worn on a finger. This could suggest that the object is a more modern copper alloy spring rather than a finger ring. The object is 14.5mm tall, 22.5mm in diameter and 14.75g. A similar example from Camerton, Somerset (1990) is illustrated in the Iron Age Artefact Identification Guide (Worrell, 2009, unpublished).
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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