South Shields, intaglio of red jasper
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
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Jewellery Fitting
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
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
436000
Northing
567000
Grid Reference
NZ436000567000
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