South Shields, intaglio of red jasper

HER Number:
16750

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, intaglio of red jasper

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Dress and Personal Accessories

Site Type: Broad:
Jewellery

Site Type: Specific:
Jewellery Fitting

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C3

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Height 2 cm. An intaglio from a signet ring. Engraved with a figure of a hunter standing with his hound under a tree, holding up a hare. It has been suggested that this may have been cut locally by an itinerant gem-engraver and if so, the figure may represent the local god Cocidius, whom the Romans identified with Silvanus, the god of wild places. Great North Museum: Hancock 1962.12

Easting:
36

Northing:
67

Grid Reference:
NZ3667

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
DJ Smith, 1974, Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne - An Illustrated Introduction, 20; Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol XXXIX (1961), pp 19, 32, no. 12; Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol XLI (1963), p 235, plate xii; Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol XLIX (1971), pp 215-30, pl xvii