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FINGER RING
Unique ID: WAW-6AE7E3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman (1st to 2nd centuries) finger ring: The copper alloy finger ring has a fragment of a oval or circular bezel which is a cell. The setting is missing. The remaining shoulder is slightly moulded forming a '>-' on the exterior. The shoulder then tapers towards the loop, which is 'D' shaped in section. Only a small portion remains of the loop, and the break is not recent. The surface of the ring has a well developed grey/green coloured patina. It measures 13.16mm long from the upper edge to the lower edge of the bezel, and it is 8.2mm wide from each apex of the shoulders/loops. It weighs 1.6g.
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 Trust
Johns, C. 1996 The Jewellery of Roman Britain UCL Press
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.16 mm
Width: 8.2 mm
Weight: 1.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 29th November 2012 - Thursday 27th February 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Malvern Hills (District)
Parish or ward: Shrawley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO8165
Four figure Latitude: 52.28280941
Four figure longitude: -2.27993574
1:25K map: SO8165
1:10K map: SO86NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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