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Ear ring
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Suffolk County Council, Faye Minter, 2003-10-06 10:15:45
Title
Ear ring
Description
English: An incomplete gold Roman ear ring.Identified under the Teasure Act at the British Museum. Record updated 19/3/04. 
   "A Roman gold ear-ring of rectangular form, slightly dented and distorted and lacking its hook. It comprises two plates joined at the margins. The front-plate is embossed with a decorative swagged border framing a central rectangular box-setting. The setting is now empty. There is a central torn hole in the back-plate marking the former point of attachment of the hook. The ear-ring is Allason-Jones Type 11 (Lindsay Allason-Jones Ear-rings in Roman Britain, Oxford 1989).
   
   Date: Probably 2nd-3rd century AD.
   
   Dimensions: 12.4 x 13.0 x c.2.2 mm.
   
   Weight: 0.56 g.
   
   Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated that the gold content is approximately 89%.
   
   
   
   Ralph Jackson
   Dept. of Prehistory and Europe
British Museum"
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 100 and 299
Accession number
FindID: 52854
Old ref: SF-D990A5
Filename: SF-D990A5.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/10245
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/10245/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/52854
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