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English: A complete copper-alloy Roman finger ring in good condition with a complete glass intaglio. The hoop is oval in shape measuring 26mm by 22mm externally and 20mm by 15mm internally. The back of the hoop, opposite the bezel, is very narrow, and worn, circa 2mm in width, the hoop flares into wide shoulders which have a central longitudinal ridge. The bezel is oval in shape measuring 15mm in width at its widest point. The setting is also oval in shape, and the turquoise/greenish glass setting is set within an oval recess. The glass setting measures 13mm in length and 10mm in width, its turquoise/green colour is more unusual than the usual blue glass used by the Romano-British to imitate Roman gem intaglios. It has been engraved with a standing human figure walking right with two projection from one side of the body and one from the other.

This figure is very similar to another engraved on blue glass found at Dorchester (Henig 1974, plate XVIII no 578, p79), the figure might be interpreted as Cupid with a wing behind and two arms held out in front. Alternatively the third protrusion could be a phallus as seen on a green glass intaglio from Highdown, Sussex (Henig 1974, Plate XVII, no 555, p78). These parallel settings are of a similar size and also oval in shape. Henig dates the Dorchester and Highdown examples to the third century AD and this example is likely to be of a similar date.