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Roman earring
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2007-08-24 09:43:59
Title
Roman earring
Description
English: Roman copper alloy ear ring, consisting of an oval-sectioned (continuing to triangular-sectioned) piece of copper alloy bent into a U shape. It measures 14.4mm in length and weighs 1.16g.

The thicker, oval-section terminal measures 3x2.5mm. To the outside it is decorated (and seemingly to one side only, so it would have been the left ear) with a single transverse groove flanking the end. Beyond this are two pairs of three incised diagonals and above these a double transverse groove. This is below two diagonal grooves in an inverted V, but not joining at the centre. From this point the ear ring becomes more trinagular in section as a central rib emerges, becoming more prominent further along the ear ring. Either side is a groove, with decoration in the form of tiny diagonal grooves again on the left hand side only.

There is no decoration on the inside surface. Most of the light bluey-geen patina has been lost but is visible on the inside surface and along the grooves.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 190955
Old ref: WILT-EDD345
Filename: Norgan0807earing.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/147998
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/147998
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/190955
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Object location51° 03′ 38.88″ N, 2° 07′ 09.08″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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