Record ID: PUBLIC-C01161
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Simple and crude small copper alloy finger ring. The ring is made from a 0.9mm thick, rectangular cross-section, copper alloy strip; 5mm wide at its centre, that tapers linearly in width, narrowing to a point at either end. The strip is formed into an approximate 14mm diameter circle to create the hoop of the finger ring with the overlapping pointed terminal ends meeting opposite the widest part of the hoop. There is no discernable decoration. Rings of this most basic form are commonly of Roman to late Early Medieval date. Some Roman examples hav…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 1st January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-A3B835
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Roman Guiraud Type 3 or 4 finger ring. Only the bezel and a fraction of one side of the hoop survives. The bezel is collared; octagonal on the outside and circular on the inside. A short section of the collar's rim is missing from an old break adjacent to the shoulder stub of the hoop. The setting (probably gemstone or glass) that would have been set within the collar is also missing, together with the rest of the hoop. The width of the hoop stub expands slightly as it springs from its junction with the bezel, but then fractures probably at a point of transver…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B1A243
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken and inwardly bent copper-alloy Roman finger ring. Wavy-shaped (in-phase) sides to the hoop with no bezel, forming six (assuming hoop is complete) convex oval segments with flanking in-curving waists. There are similar polygonal examples in gold, silver and occasionally copper alloy on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database cf. SOM-E8A4C2. Although the damage makes it unclear as to whether the hoop was originally polygonal or circular, the rings typology otherwise matches Henig's type IX classification. Henig (1974, 50; 2007, 9 and 14) suggests that type IX rings are third-cen…
Created on: Tuesday 29th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 29th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1FFD6E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver alloy Roman snakes-head finger ring of Johns type Bii. Penannular circular hoop of D-shaped cross section with the bezel formed of two un-joined confronted snakes' heads. The heads are moulded in an oval, planoconvex section shape with a surrounding flange. Where both flanges meet in the middle of the bezel they have been fashioned to butt together squarely, but there is no evidence of any effort to join them permanently. The contoured convex upper surface of the head of each snake has a moulded longitudinal cleft in the centre. There is a predominantly black patin…
Created on: Tuesday 24th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-73DDE2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy finger ring. Sub oval 8mm wide bezel with shoulders tapering to a 2mm circular section hoop. The periphery of the bezel is raised in a rim to form an internal recess or setting to accommodate an insert which is now missing. The floor of the oval recess is rough and without design. Examination of this surface under a macroscope reveals several tiny spheres of silvery metal suggesting the insert was not a gem but rather metallic and originally soldered into place. There is no archaeological context to help provide a date to this ring, and the missing insert makes…
Created on: Monday 28th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-D8F64D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy finger ring. The ring lacks extant diagnostic features; it is possibly Medieval, but more probably Roman. Oval blind empty bezel now missing its embellishment. From broad shoulders adjoining the bezel it tapers to a broken D-section hoop. The width at the break is approximately 1mm. Cf. BERK-0BC466 and SF-0532E7. Circa AD50-300.
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-D64929
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded and incomplete Roman copper alloy finger ring. The ring has a recessed oval bezel to accommodate a stone, enamel/glass or intaglio which is now missing. On both flanks the bezel tapers smoothly and symmetrically down in width to form the "D" sectioned hoop most of which is missing from old breaks. Only approximately 40% of the ring hoop is extant. Henig type II; circa 1st-3rd century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
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