Description (Physical description)
One keeled ring of V section, scored with parallel and divergent lines externally.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Previously mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board with handwitten label (in Cyril Fox's hand) reading: 'Guibiasco, Ticino, N. Italy. DD. Oscar Raphael, FSA'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Field collection)
Early Hallstat Period. From the Guibiasco cemetery of the Hallstatt period, possibly excavated c. 1900.

Event Date 1900
Author: maa

Context (References)
Ulrich, R. (1914). Die Gräberfelder in der Umgebung von Bellinzona, Kt. Tessin. Band 1: Beschreibender Katalog, Band 2: Tafeln. Zürich.
Event Date 1914
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Ring of thin copper alloy; perhaps a finger ring. Concave interior with corresponding pronounced carination midway down exterior surface. External decoration formed of incised lines which meet each other at slight angles to emphasise this carination line. Incised horizontal band near each edge of the ring forming a decorative border. Areas of green patina.
Event Date 20/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2024.5905 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 21/3/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)