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Roman silver snake ring
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Tom Brindle, 2012-05-29 12:30:26
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Roman silver snake ring
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English: REPORT FOR HM CORONER

Treasure case 2011 T282:
A Roman silver snake ring. A small simple example with plain slender circular hoop of circular cross-section, its terminals turned back and formed into snake heads, of plano-convex cross-section, which display signs of wear.
It is Johns category Biv (C. Johns, The Jewellery of Roman Britain (UCL Press, London, 1996), 45).

Date: Roman, probably 2nd to 3rd century AD.

Dimensions: external 17.3 x 17.3 mm; internal 14.2 x 12.2 mm.

Weight: 2.4 g.


In age and precious metal content the object qualifies as Treasure under the terms of the 1996 Treasure Act.

Ralph Jackson
Dept. of Prehistory & Europe
British Museum
24th August 2011
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 100 and 300
Accession number
FindID: 440000
Old ref: WMID-6DC3A7
Filename: 2011T282bezel.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/383171
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/383171/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/440000
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Object location52° 43′ 00.12″ N, 2° 07′ 04.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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