Romano-British Bronze Ring with Lozenge

3RD CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (3.42 grams, 21.94 mm overall, 19.03 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10)).

Comprising an expanding hoop with angled shoulders, the bezel with raised lozenge decorated with incised pellets and an X-motif. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Northants border, UK.
Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. for the type Crummy, N., Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester, 1993, fig.50, nos. 1780,1783.

Footnotes

Rings of these typologies seem to have been manufactured in Britain, and are characterised by decorative mouldings on the hoop. Sometimes the broad elements of the hoop had a decorative setting soldered to it.

CONDITION

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LOT 0881