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Description: | Roman (1st to 2nd centuries) finger ring: The copper alloy finger ring, which has been cast, has a horizontal oval cell bezel. The cell has no traces of the original filling. The shoulders are undecorated and taper towards the loop, of which only a small portion remains. The breaks of the loop are not too recent. The loop has an oval section. The surface of the ring has a matte mid brown colour. It measures 17.89mm long from the hoop terminals, 9.01mm wide across the bezel and weighs 2.09g.The finger ring is Roman and a similar example is illustrated in the Colchester report (Crummy 1983), No. 1786, which has an oval bezel. Johns (Johns, 1996) illustrates similar finger rings, Figure 3.1 describing them as being Henig type II rings which date to the 1st or 2nd centuries.Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological TrustJohns, C. 1996 The Jewellery of Roman Britain UCL Press
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