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The item in question is a large gold finger ring that has been somewhat distorted. It features a circular hoop and an ovoid box setting, where the original gemstone is no longer present. The hoop is circular in profile and rectangular in section. It is made from a thin strip of plate metal with a longitudinal central groove. On each side, rilled filigree, which forms the appearance of a line of small beads, has been soldered, and twisted outward into spirals at the shoulder. In the center of each spiral is a globular grain of gold, with five further grains arranged between the two spirals in a roughly zig-zag pattern. Soldered to the ovoid box setting is a rilled collar; there are some gaps between the channels of the rilling and the box setting. A sharp indent on one side of the box setting suggests the use of a point to remove the gemstone, no doubt in antiquity, and perhaps just prior to burial.
The small gold finger ring is somewhat distorted, featuring a circular hoop and an ovoid box setting that preserves its gemstone intaglio. This comprises a light blue glass paste intaglio, rather damaged and with parts missing, which appears to have been fixed to the setting using a black tar-like substance. The design of the intaglio is difficult to make out but appears to include a piscine double tail, perhaps a dolphin. The hoop is made of a flat gold strip, to which a rope-like plaited piece of filigree has been applied. On each side are further pieces of rilled filigree which, unlike the larger ring, turn inwards to form spirals. Globular grains of gold have been applied rather haphazardly to infill the gaps on the shoulders. The box setting is ovoid, with the sides turned over the glass paste to hold it in place. Like the larger ring, this piece is surrounded by a rilled collar, with few gaps between the channels and the box setting. The inside of the hoop is rough and unfinished.
A worn fragment of a silver late Roman bezel surround, probably from a finger ring or brooch dating to the 5th century. The frame is flat and rectangular in section, with just under one-third of the frame remaining. The upper surface is decorated with an integrally cast, low-relief, moulded decoration in the form of a continuous border of plain linear hemispherical loops with a raised wedge at each angle. The reverse of the frame is plain and undecorated.
Uploaded by C. Gazdac (Feb. 2026).
