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Description: | Fragment of a Roman cast copper alloy finger ring. Only one shoulder and small parts of the bezel and hoop survive, the remaining four fifths are lost to old breaks. The ring appears to have had a wide bezel with an oval recess in the centre, probably to hold an intaglio, now lost. The shoulders taper in width away from the bezel to the hoop and are angled down at c.45 degrees to it. The shoulders seem to angle down evenly with no carination. The section just before the break is angled down more sharply. This is probably a product of the breaking process as this section is also slightly twisted. The hoop and shoulders are almost flat with a slight D-shaped section with flat inner side and slightly convex outer side. The fragment now measures 11.5 mm in length, 10.8 mm in width, 2.7 mm in thickness and weighs 1.08g.The D shaped section to the hoop and shoulders that taper in width along with the recessed oval bezel suggest Henig type III/ /Guiraud Type 2d dating to the period AD 50 - 150 (Henig 2006, 4.
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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