Object: Spiral Ring
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrook Castle Museum (Isle of Wight), lent by Mrs Lunniss, Daffodil Valley Farm, Godshill (IOW)
Site: England, Hants, Liphook (near), Bramshill Parish, on the borders of Woolmer Forest., ? Shott
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Liphook
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): diam. 28
Weight (g): 39.4
Description: Letter from the Mint. (dated 3.1.12) "Bronze Ring. Density 8.52. Apparently cast as a stirp in an open mould. The blowholes still contain what appears to be red copper slag."
Remarks: Letter from Sir C.H. Read (Brit. Mus. dated 1.1.13) "The spiral ring is late Bronze Age. 400-500 B.C. or thereabouts (sic!). We have found some in Sussex, with curious bronze armlets. What these rings are used for is not easy to say. In Africa today, similar rings, of iron, are found on the butt-end of spears to act as a counter-poise, & no doubt also to prevent the wood splitting. I return the ring."