Find Spot record 15861 - Copper Alloy Ring from Clover Field

<1> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import, CPAT-CB6BE6 (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

A copper alloy ring, in the form of a two turn spiral that has the appearance of a late Bronze Age/Iron age artefact. It may have been a finger ring or perhaps a hair ring. Similar examples, classed as finger rings have been found in context at the Iron Age Hill Fort at Hod Hill. This type of ring is also known in the early Roman period (see 3).

<2> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, CPAT-CB6BE6 (Web Site). SCH5176.

<3> Johns, C, 1996, The Jewellery of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions (Book). SCH9433.