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Unique ID: NLM-FC0D13
Object type certainty: Certain
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The ring has a rounded, lentoid bezel drawn into wires at each end, which would originally have been twisted together, but they have come apart and been bent out of shape, probably as the result of agricultural activity; length (opened up), 47mm; length of bezel, 25mm; weight 3.8 grams.
The bezel is decorated with irregular, dense punchwork, which has been partly obscured by abrasion to one side, while in the soil. There appears to be an outer border of ovoid shapes round a ring of triangles with convex bases, in turn enclosing random triangles and hourglass shapes.
A number of punch-decorated rings of similar form have been reported as Treasure finds, in silver and copper alloy as well as gold, e.g. a silver example with a more elongated bezel from Wood Enderby, Lincolnshire (Treasure ref. 2011 T76; PAS NCL-90DD85) and a gold and a silver example from Beachamwell and Seething, Norfolk (Treasure Annual Report 2004, no. 86; and 2005/6, no. 216). They represent Anglo-Scandinavian versions of a Viking-period type and date from around the late 9th- 10th centuries.
Length (as found): 47mm, Width (bezel): 14.5mm, Thickness (bezel): 1.4mm, Weight: 3.72gms.
Notes:
The ring from Binbrook would therefore qualify as Treasure under two of the stipulated criteria of the Treasure Act: it is more than 300 years old and the precious metal content exceeds 10%.
From the FLO:
Gold Finger Ring. Cast and beaten lentoid or rhomboid bezel crowded with triangular stamps of lengths 0.8mm-1.6mm and possibly other differently sized impressions from the same stamps differently aligned; the impressions are densest along one side of the bezel where it seems the larger stamps follow its edge. The band is a thin (of 1.8mm median width) strip of gold now projecting eccentrically from either end of the bezel. Peter Spencer kindly confirms to the finder (by letter dated 14 April 2014) that this is a Viking ring. Suggested date: Early Medieval: 860-925. In view of its date and material this object is to be submitted to the Treasure process, reference 2014 T502.
Subsequent action after recording: Submitted for consideration as Treasure
Treasure case tracking number: 2014T502
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Viking style
Date from: Circa AD 865
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Quantity: 1
Length: 47 mm
Width: 14.5 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 3.72 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 24th June 2014
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Other reference: NLM25882a
Treasure case number: 2014T502
Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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