FINGER RING 437141

Description: A Roman (AD 100-300) copper alloy and enamel finger-ring of Henig's Type XII in shape and Daubney's Group 7 (Miscellaneous) in decoration. In shape the finger-ring is oval and slightly squashed. It measures 21.34x18.93mm (internal 18.62x15.43mm) and weighs 1.93g. The bezel is oval in shape, measuring 6.66mm in max.width and narrowing at the shoulders (c.5mm wide) into the hoop (c.3mm below the shoulders and 1.87mm at the reverse). The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the inside surface. The bezel, which is damaged slightly at one edge, is decorated with an oval field of enamel, at the centre of which is a smaller oval (of copper alloy) with two (copper alloy) transverse lines running across it. This divides the central oval into the three lateral fields. Traces of what appears to be red in colour enamel survive in all parts of the decorative field. A very similar finger-ring on this database, SOMDOR490 from Somerset, has the two outer fields of the central oval in blue enamel while the rest are in red. Also cf. NLM-AC4975, which is similar with all-orange enamel. Daubney (2008; Enamelled Roman-British Finger Rings, p.1) dates enamelled finger-rings to the 2nd and 3rd century.

Date: 100 - 300

Object type: FINGER RING

Last import: August 15, 2017