Record ID: NMS-2867A9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with enamelled decoration on the exterior and an inscription on the interior. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section and consistent in width. with a slim, flat border around either edge, which has broken away in places. The convex exterior is decorated with a design in panels, each filled with a reserved gold design against a background of black enamel; much of the enamel is now missing. The panels are separated by five slightly taller S-shaped motifs, set transversely so that they interrupt the flat border around each edge. Each&…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-2561AC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete but warped and squashed cast gold posy of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1550 - 1650. The object is a finger ring composed of a circular hoop that is warped into a sub-oval shape. The ring has a shallow D-shaped, almost rectangular, cross-section with a slightly convex outer surface and flat inner surface. The outer surface is plain frequent occasional scratches. The inner surface of the hoop is inscribed with the text: “LET x VERTV x BE x THE x GIDE (let virtue by they guide)  in capitalised serif font. Dimensions: The finger ring has a maximum di…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charney Bassett CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-22901D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold quarter stater of the Catuvellauni, attributed to Tasciovanos and dating to the period c. 25 BC - AD 10. Rudd's 'Tasciovanos Pegasus' type (ABC 2601). Obverse: TASC in panel on vertical wreath. Reverse: Pegasus left, tail raised, [pellet in ring in front]. Reference: ABC, p. 129, no 2601; BMC 1647-50; Van Arsdell 1786. Diameter: 10 mm Weight: 1.37g
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th November 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-2141D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold stater of the Southern Region / Regini and Atrebates, struck for Commius, 'Commius E-Type' dating to the period c.50-25 BC. Obverse: Wreath design with two hidden faces. Reverse: Horse right, wheel below, E symbol above, [CO]MM[IOS] below and front. Cf. ABC, p. 66, no. 1025; VA 352-1.
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th November 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-212BDD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy/posey/posie ring with a plano convex sectioned hoop, 2.4mm wide and 0.7mm thick and of 15.6mm internal diameter. The outside curved edge is undecorated, the flat inside is engraved "Thy vertue is thy honnor". There is a worn mark of a single lowercase closed loop letter g in a rectangular or scutiform escutcheon (second image). The style of the lettering is generally consistent with rings from the 17th and 18th century.
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
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Record ID: CAM-1A4242
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger-ring of modern date. This artefact weighs 0.85g, has a circular hoop of 16.9mm external diameter. The band that forms the hoop has a width of 2.6mm, thickness of 1.30mm and a 'D' shaped cross-section. The internal surface of the hoop appears to be undecorated. There is one mark but this is probably fortuitously present, or possibly the result of slight damage or the only trace of a well disguised join in the band to form the continuous hoop. The convexly curved external surface is moulded or shaped to have a decorative pattern suggesting a wide rope twist. If ho…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CF923E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with rectangular-section hoop. The exterior is engraved with a mix of Roman and Lombardic capital letters, reading + SALVZ DE LVI. DVNT. IO MVI. + (Greetings from he whose.....). The letters all have small serifs, and are slightly clumsy in execution. The Z is reversed (like an angular S); the As have straight bars across the top and downward-angled central bars, the E is round-backed; and both the Ds are unusually shaped. The Ts and Ms are Roman in style. Dimensions: The external diameter varies slightly, but is around 19mm.…
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2022
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Record ID: OXON-CDC628
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and well preserved post-medieval gold 'posy' ring, dating to the period c.AD 1705-1800 The finger ring has a D-shaped band that is plain externally. Inside the band is an inscription in an italic script reading ‘Noe chaing till death’ with no evidence of a makers mark. The finger ring is made of gold which retains its polish although the outside surface has frequent shallow scratches. The finger ring has a maximum external diameter of 22.6mm, an internal diameter of 19mm, is 4.1mm wide and weighs 6.52 grams. Since at least the middle of the nineteenth cen…
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A6C5A3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold finger ring of medieval date (c.1300-1400). Description: The once circular hoop of the ring is D-shaped in cross section and widens slightly at the shoulders where it meets the 'Pie dish' bezel. The bezel is irregularly hexagonal in plan and sub-lozenge-shaped in profile, the bottom half being deeper than the top with six distinct facets meeting at a flattened point. The top half of the bezel is more open, with its six facets positioned at a 90 degree angle, the very tops curving inwards slightly and bevelled to hold a now missing stone setting. The two halves …
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Mary in the Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-A4BD34
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval gold finger ring dating to circa AD 1400-1600. The hoop is oval in section. The bezel setting is square with a collar. Its are oblique tapering to the underside of the hoop, hemispherical in section. Its facets are decorated with incised floral motifs. The underside of the bezel is decorated with three transverse incisions set with a rectangular border. The setting contains a square-cut opaque gem or piece of glass with bevelled edges and flat top. The shoulders and hoop are circular, projecting from the bezel. The shoulders and upper half of the l…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-918A05
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, gold Sovereign of George IV (AD 1820-1830) dated 1821. Obverse description: Laureate head left Obverse inscription: GEORGIUS III D:G: to left of bust, BRITANNIA:REX:F:D:,B.P.to right of neck Reverse description: St. George, mounted slaying a dragon, date in exergue, 1821,B.P. to right of date. Diameter: 22.11mm, Thickness: 1.58mm, Weight: 8.0g. The sovereign is in fine/very fine condition but has some shallow scratches on both surfaces. The sovereign has been part of the currency since the reign of Henry VII. The current reverse design was cre…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th November 2021
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Record ID: KENT-8E7F29
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold or gold plated copper alloy pennanular ring of Late Bronze Age date (1150-750 BC). Description: The object is oval in plan broadly sub-circular to D-shaped in cross-section with the outside edge being more rounded than the straighter inside edge.The terminals are slightly flared with visible rims and have irregular facets which suggest they have been hammered. The ring is mostly gold in colour, with the exception of a brown band that appears to wrap around it, however it is likely that this is the core of the object that has been heavily coated in gold and then fi…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilsford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81CA76
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Rectangular piece of gold sheet with repoussé and punched decoration, of early to middle Bronze Age date. The decoration consists of three longitudinal panels, each one made from a pair of relief lines or creases with  corresponding grooves on the reverse, so either pushed out from the reverse (the repoussé technique) or hammered over a shaped former or patrix. The effect is to give the two undecorated strips a slightly raised feel. Each of the three decorated panels is filled with two longitudinal rows of pun…
Created on: Sunday 7th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-55AAF7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold sovereign of George III, AD 1760-1820. Minted in AD 1817. This coin is part of the coinage referred to as the last or new coinage that was minted between AD 1816-1820. The obverse shows a laureate head right. Obverse legend reads: GEORGIUS III D:G:BRITANNIAR:REX F:D: The exergue reads: 1817. The reverse shows St George mounted on a rearing horse right, spearing a dragon beneath. Reverse legend reads HONI . SOIT . QUI . MAL . Y . PENSE. The reverse legend translated from Latin is: Evil to him who evil thinks, which is the motto of the Order of the Garter. Die axis is 6 o 
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 9th November 2021
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Record ID: LIN-504982
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval gold tremissis of the Merovingian 'mint and moneyer' or 'national' series dating to c.AD580-670, mint: Coriallum (modern Cherbourg, France), moneyer: Rignicharius (Belfort 1639, Prou 302). Ref: Belfort 1982, vol 1: 467; Prous 1892: 71. Diameter: 12.29 mm; Thickness: 0.95 mm; Weight: 1.39g This is the first Merovingian tremissis of this type recorded on the PAS database. 18.11.2021
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-407F5C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2021 T852 A complete gold posy ring of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1550 - 1700. The ring is circular in plan with a D-shaped section.  The outer surface is undecorated. The interior surface of the ring is inscribed with upper case Roman text reading ‘BE TRVE IN HART’ (be true in heart).  There is no visible makers’ mark. Dimensions: Diameter: 17mm; Width: 3mm; Thickness: 0.8mm; Weight: 1.6g. Discussion: Lettering and inscriptions can be used to try and narrow the dating of a ring, those with block capitals being earlier and the lettering b…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 14th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Markington with Wallerthwaite', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-400464
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2021 T851 An almost complete gold and glass finger ring of Roman date, c. AD 300-400. The band is formed of two gold wires, originally circular in plan but now bent out of shape, with an ovate bezel containing a broken purple glass setting and sub-triangular gold foliate shoulders. The bezel of the finger ring comprises an undecorated ovate backplate set between two gold wires, which join together either side of the bezel and run parallel to one another to form the band. The bezel is set with an oval purple glass setting, now broken, held in place with appr…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 30th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holtby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0FDEF6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold hammered quarter noble of Richard II (1377-1399 CE). North no 1318. The obverse shows a shield of England in an 8-arched tressure. The obverse legend is mostly gone, but probably reads RICARD D GRA REX ANGL. The reverse depicts a Lis at the centre. Reverse legend is also mostly gone, but reads EXALTABITVR IN GLORIA with single saltires between each word.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Much Hadham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0EC8A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Iron Age gold stater (19.3mm, 5.87g), attributed to the Catuvellauni and of Early Whaddon Chase beaded ring type, dating to c.60 - 20 BC. Obverse: wreath, cloak and crescents with rounded wings above the wreath. Reverse: horse facing right with wing motif above and pellet sun below. As ABC 2439, BMC 287-294.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-BE5928
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2021 T832 Addendum to 2019 T784. A fragment of a gold disc pendant with inlaid white shell and red stone, probably garnet, of Early Medieval date, c. mid-6th to 7th century. The pendant fragment is formed of a sheet of gold, semi-circular in plan but originally circular when complete. The rounded edge of the plate is intact, but the remaining edges terminate in uneven breaks where the fragment has separated from the remainder of the pendant.  The upper surface of the gold sheet is decorated with extensive filigree ornament, comprising triple strands f…
Created on: Friday 29th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skirpenbeck', grid reference and parish protected.