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FINGER RING
Unique ID: ESS-696646
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy finger ring with plain loop, which increases in thickness towards the shoulders and bezel. The bezel has a recessed orange-red oval setting engraved with a crescent moon and three eight pointed stars. It is crudely set into the bezel, extending all the way through the hoop. The hoop is slighy oval, measuring 24.94mm by 23.96mm externally, 20.08mm by 18.68mm internally. The bezel is 8.61mm wide, 3.65mm thick, with the lower half of the hoop measuring 3.20mm wide, 2.24mm thick. The setting is 8.67mm long, 6.52mm thick. The ring weighs 5.13 grams.
Class: Henig Type II/III
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 5.13 g
Diameter: 24.94 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1980
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OEF 6136
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Gem
Manufacture method: Cast
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Colchester (District)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9725
Four figure Latitude: 51.888734
Four figure longitude: 0.861306
1:25K map: TL9725
1:10K map: TL92NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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