Finger Ring

Object/Artifact

-

Trimontium Museum

Name/Title

Finger Ring

Entry/Object ID

L.2021.100

Description

Spiral finger ring of bronze, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Use

Used as jewellery/decoration. May have had symbolic meaning.

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Category

Ring
Jewellery

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 741

Source (if not Accessioned)

National Museums Scotland

Notes

Loan

Made/Created

Time Period

Iron Age

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Celtic

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Ring, Finger

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Jewelry

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Body Adornments

Nomenclature Class

Adornment

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

rings (finger jewelry)

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous Accession Number

Other Number

III.15.34

Material

Bronze

Color

Green

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Exhibition

Permanent Exhibition

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Caption

Label

The spiral finger ring is a local Iron Age design, found at the fort. The size suggests that it was worn by a man.