NHER 37480 (Find Spot record) - Roman finger ring

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Summary

A Roman copper alloy finger ring with stamped snake's head decoration was found in a garden.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79SW
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Before 8 June 2002. Found in garden. Garden of 26 Addison Close.
Roman copper alloy pennanular snake terminal finger ring with crisp moulded details to heads, probably stamped, as (S1). This type of ring is known in numerous variants in precious and non precious metals, for example the thirty very similar examples found in the Snettisham jewellers hoard, deposited after AD 154/5. Hoop has rounded rectangular section, maximum diameter 2mm; internal hoop diameter 19mm.
See (S2).
Identified by T. J. Pestell (NCM), 3 September 2002.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 September 2002.

  • --- Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
  • <S1> Monograph: Johns, C.. 1996. Jewellery of Roman Britain. Celtic Art and Classical Tradition.. Type Bii.
  • <S2> Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 30 2005 3:36PM

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