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Unique ID: SF-E58167
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper-alloy finger ring of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date. It is formed from a sheet of copper-alloy that is now flattened due to post-depositional damage, with an oval shaped bezel and tapering band, the ends of which overlap and are wound around each other. The front face of the bezel and the band are decorated with numerous unevenly spaced, and often overlapping, ring-and-dot motifs. It measures 29.57mm in current distorted/squashed size, 11.96mm in width at bezel, 0.42mm in thickness at bezel, and weighs 0.87g.
This is a finger ring of late Anglo-Saxon date with parallels noted from Norfolk (NMS-CCD822, NMS-48A786) and elsewhere (Mainman and Rogers, 2000: nos. 10515, 10517). These suggest a date in the 9th-11th centuries AD for the current example.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.57 mm
Width: 11.96 mm
Thickness: 0.42 mm
Weight: 0.87 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 2010
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Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mainman, A.J. and Rogers, N.S.H. | 2000 | Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds From Anglo-Scandinavian York | York | Council for British Archaeology | nos. 10515, 10517 |