CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

Cf. E. Coche de la Ferté, Antique Jewellery from the Second to the Eighth Century, Berne, 1962, pl. VI for a 3rd Century ring with anchor from the De Clercq collection. The anchor was "...the paleochristian symbol of the Cross particularly frequent in the 3rd Century."