LATE ROMAN/MEDIEVAL RING, 7th-11th CENTURY AD, SIZE 9 4 Gilt bronze split band in

Gilt bronze split band in the Viking taste

it is also known as the Jerusalem Cross

with rounded face

Near circular bezel

LATE ROMAN/MEDIEVAL RING, 7th-11th CENTURY AD, SIZE 9 4 Gilt bronze split band in7th 11th Century AD. Gilt bronze, size 9 with line bordered oval bezel. Rounded face band 1. 4mm at the bottom flaring to the shoulders. See Ancient Rings, Pollio p. 103 for a similar example with a pentagram centered, indicating use by a sorcerer. This example may have been so marked, with the figure removed upon conversion to Christianity. Dating to the period of artistic reversal known as the Dark Ages, after the fall of Rome. It is the period of