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FINGER RING
Unique ID: NARC-38A105
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper-alloy Finger Ring of Roman date (AD 43-410). The finger ring is circular in plan and is formed of a long strip of pointed D-shaped sectioned copper alloy which taper to two pointed which overlap to form a ring.
The finger-ring is dark green colour.
The undecorated nature of this artefact makes it difficult to date precisely, although a fairly similar example in Crummy (1996: 48, fig. 50, no. 1759) is dated to the AD 1st-2nd centuries. A wider Roman date of AD 43-410 is given here.
Diameter: 21.41mm, Thickness: 2.14mm, Weight: 4.7g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.14 mm
Weight: 4.7 g
Diameter: 21.41 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 8th October 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Norton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5965
Four figure Latitude: 52.27998758
Four figure longitude: -1.13660734
1:25K map: SP5965
1:10K map: SP56NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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