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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy finger ring of Roman date. The bezel, one shoulder, and part of the band survive, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The bezel is hexagonal in form with a central circular recess missing its original (glass?) setting due to old breaks. To one side is a complete shoulder that is flat, rectangular in form, and on the front face has a slight longitudinal groove. From the shoulder extends the remains of the band. This is rectangular in form, D-shaped in cross section, and curves to old breaks behind the bezel. The entire object has a dark green patina. It measures 9.56mm in width at bezel, 10.44mm in width at shoulder, 4.18mm in width at band, 15.04mm in surviving length, 4.82mm in thickness at bezel (1.62mm at band), and 2.14g in weight.This is an incomplete finger ring of Roman date. It finds a near identical parallel in an example published from Colchester (Crummy, 1983: no. 1780) and is of probable c.2nd-3rd century AD date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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