Record ID: NARC-3DDCC1
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible fragment of a gold earring probably of Roman date (AD 43-300). The object is composed of the hook portion of an earring, the object is circular in cross section and U shaped in plan. Both ends taper to points. One end would have would have affixed to a decorative element, now missing. Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: NMS-F06C53 (2021T21), WAW-C55D85 (2019T25), NARC-758D95 (2018T75), BM-489856, YORYM-7CB0A7 (2009T716), SF-F53D92 (2005T166). In the absence of the decorative element, an exact type cannot be det…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NARC-758D95
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold Ear ring of Roman date (AD 100-300). The object is composed of a recurves wire hook which is circular in section. The wire broadens towards the attachment point in the centre of the back of the objects recessed aperture. The main portion of the object is composed of a tear drop shaped plate with a deep ovate recess at it's the centre. This would have held a gem which is now missing. Along the top of the plate are two symmetrical soldered knops from which a circular sectioned wire with recurved loop projects. Length: 23.42mm, Width: 12.61mm, Thickness: 8.27mm, Wei…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
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Record ID: NARC-2D3482
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Gold earring. Identified by Lindsay Allason-Jones as a 2nd Century Roman ear ring of probable Eastern Mediterranean provenance. Richard Hobbs (Romano-British Curator at teh British Musuem) has prepared the following report: Gold ear-ring, consisting of a large hoop, circular in section which slightly swells from the terminals. The attachment terminals form a hook-and-eye arrangement. The hoop has a number of different decorative elements: a fixed polyhedral bead of green glass, and another probable bead which has now broken away; a loose rope-style cylinder of filigree wire and fo…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
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