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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy finger ring of probable Late Iron Age or early Roman date. The finger ring has a D-shaped cross section and is in the form of a two turn spiral, but each end is broken just after the overlap. Similar rings often have 3, 4 or more spirals. Although these are often identified as finger rings, they may also be hair rings. Although this form of ring appears from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, the form of this ring and the patina suggests a date of c. 100 BC to AD 100; similar examples classed as finger rings have been found in context at the Iron Age Hill Fort at Hod Hill, while they are also known in the early Roman period (Johns 2012).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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