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FINGER RING
Unique ID: NMS-394F80
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Late Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian finger-ring, now distorted, with narrow hoop expanding into a flat ovoid bezel marked at one end by a transverse engraved line and a group of faintly incised lines at the other, and decorated with twenty stamped ring-and-dots, some overlapping. The missing ends of the hoop would have originally have been wound round each other; compare Rogerson 1995 (EAA 74), fig. nos. 23-4. 10th century
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 900
Date to: AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 10th June 2008
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Congham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogerson, A. | 1995 | A Late Neolithic, Saxon and Medieval Site at Middle Harling, Norfolk | Norfolk Museums Service |
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