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English: A good example of a complete copper alloy Roman finger ring of Henig type II. The bezel of the ring is oval and is set with a surviving blue glass intaglio. The intaglio is 11.3mm long and 8.64mm wide. It is carved with the figure of Mars who is standing right with his head looking left, back over his shoulder. He is wearing a crested helmet and holding a shield in his right hand and holding a raised sword in his left. He is not draped. The bezel is part of a long broad, flattened top to the ring. I.e. the ring is semicircular in profile, when viewed with the flat portion uppermost. This flattened portion is 23.54mm long, before it curves round into the hoop, is 13.98mm wide and 3.92mm thick. To either side of the intaglio setting are three, parallel incised circles. Below the circles, to either side, as the hoop curves down, there is an incised pair of horizontal, parallel lines. Beneath these, as the hoop continues downwards, are vertically incised lines radiating inwards to an incised triangle. Just beneath the triangles, the hoop curves under to form the back of the ring. The hoop is semicircular in section and flattened. It is 9.82mm wide at the point of curving away from the flattened top, tapering to a minimum width of 3.82mm. The hoop was split at this point, after discovery, and has subsequently been repaired. The hoop is 1.76mm thick at the thinnest point. The ring has an external diameter of 23.78mm and weighs 7.30g. The ring has been treated since discovery and has an even, dark green patina. Traces of gilding survive around the intaglio and notably to the reverse of the bezel and the inner surface of the hoop. Rings of this type date from the second half of the first century to the early part of the second century. See Henig 1978, A corpus of Roman engraved gemstones from British sites, page 35, figure 1, II.