Record ID: SWYOR-9A0B01
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold Brancaster type Roman finger ring with decorated with a square shaped bezel, dating to about AD350-AD450. The ring is broken and mishapen. The band either side of the bezel is stretched. On one side the ring band turns down 90 degrees before terminating with a break. On the other side the band turns 90 degrees again, though this time the remaining section is bent back on itself. It is not possible to deduce if any part of the ring band is missing, or to confirm its original shape. The profile of the ring band is straight on the inner face and slightly…
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cowesby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-146194
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted gold filigree finger ring of late Roman date, AD 300 - 400. It has a rectangular bezel, and a detached translucent white glass or gem setting. The gem is also rectangular, with one flat face and one convex face, but with facets at the sides. It seems a little too small for the bezel, at 8.3mm long, 7.5mm wide and 2.5mm thick. 0.24g. The bezel is of hollow box constructions and has a back plate and walls made of sheet gold. The walls enclose a flange round the opening to frame the setting, also of sheet gold. On the outside of the walls, about half way up, is a rope ef…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kilvington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-2B092E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A contemporary copy of a gold solidus of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating to c. AD 347-348 (Reece Period 17). Reverse prototype: VICTORIAE DD NN AVGG, Two Victories facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/X/MVLT/XX. Prototype from mint of Trier. For type, see RIC VIII, p. 147, no. 132; Depeyrot, Les monnaies d'or de Constantin II a Zenon, p. 108, no. 6/3.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-BACDB6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger-ring, with openwork hoop and empty box-bezel, severely distorted, damaged and crushed, but evidently originally of good quality workmanship. The hoop, lightly tapered from shoulder to back, comprises a pair of border strips enclosing a symmetrical arrangement of openwork motifs: a central small annular ring at the back is flanked by scrolled tendrils which are followed by a pair of confronted peltas at the shoulder. Where the border strips are soldered to the side of the bezel they terminate in a crook-like scroll enclosing a pellet. The distorted box bezel, its ba…
Created on: Friday 1st February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scaftworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-E56143
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman solid gold pendant in the shape of a phallus. The pendant has a broken and distorted grooved suspension loop and a simple representation of the male genitals, comprising testicles (one broken and missing) and erect penis, the glans depicted by a demarcating groove. The pendant is similar to, though more rudimentary than, another solid gold example from Braintree, Essex (ESS-0CDDC1; Treasure case PEE 81). A more finely detailed hollow gold example has also been reported from Hillingdon, Norfolk (NMS-94CA46; 2011 T78). The phallus was a powerful apotropaic symbol throughout th…
Created on: Thursday 24th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knaresborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-D88425
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger ring with a gem setting which is oval. The gem is nicolo glass, with a dark blue substrate, chamfered sides and a flat, light-blue upper surface. It is engraved with a standing figure facing left (on the intaglio), leaning on a column. This is probably a representation of Apollo, as on a nicolo glass intaglio from Braconbury, Felixstowe, Suffolk (M. Henig A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites (3rd edition, Oxford, 2007), 95 and PL. 1, no. 25). The lower part of the setting is cracked. The band of the ring is broad at the shoulders and bezel, and…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Riccall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-4637C5
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Published
A small gem-set gold pendant comprising a translucent purple oval glass gem, of plano-convex cross-section, set in an oval gold frame 2.3mm wide, encircled by a beaded gold wire. The beading is very neat and regular. There is no backplate to the pendant, allowing the gem to be seen from both faces. The suspension loop, made from a tapered gold strip, is quite rudimentarily attached to the frame and is atypically orientated (running front to back rather than side to side), may have been an ancient repair. The lack of a backplate rules out an early-medieval date and the pendant is proba…
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rotherham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-76A2E5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a gold Roman ear ring of Allason-Jones type 2e. The ear ring is a loop of gold wire (2.15mm thick). There is a butted joint which may be soldered, or the ring may have originally been penannular. The loop is decorated with incised transverse lines which run right round the wire. The entire loop is covered with these lines. A plainer penannular example of Allason-Jones type 1 is 2010 T287. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 31st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-8F0C84
Object type: AMULET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman inscribed gold amulet (lamella) comprising a rectangular sheet of gold foil, originally tightly rolled but unrolled by the finder. The resulting creases and corrugations were regularised by a metals conservator at the British Museum to enable an attempt at reading the inscribed text. The top, bottom and right side of the sheet are largely intact, but the left side is broken away. Text (Dr Roger Tomlin): Inscribed across the short axis by a fine point are 18 lines of cursive writing, of which only the right-hand portion survives. Line 1 ends with a space, as if it is some …
Created on: Wednesday 17th June 2009
Last updated: Saturday 9th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-EFAC57
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2009 T40 "A small sheet gold object originally of hollow sub-conical shape but now irregularly flattened and slightly damaged. At the broader end a plain rim is followed by a series of concave mouldings interspersed with thin bands of fine dot-punching and two rows of circular pellets. A zone of incised interlocking lentil and diamond motifs is followed by further bands of pellets, dot-punching and simple mouldings terminating in a slightly torn plain rim with an internal diameter of c. 2 mm. The function of the object, probably a component of Roman jewellery, is uncerta…
Created on: Tuesday 27th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-08E848
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman coin; a solidus of Valentinian II (AD 375 - 392), showing two emperors standing on the reverse. The coin was minted in Trier in AD 388 - 392. The coin has a diameter of 22mm and weighs c. 4.5g. For reference see Roman Imperial Coinage IX, Trier, number 90(a).
Created on: Friday 16th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-C79F30
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
2006 T588 Report by Martin Henig: "The ring i made of gold with a hoop flattened at one point to make an ovoid bezel, upon which is roughly incised the form of a palm branch. The type is well attested in the Campanian cities overwhelmed by the erruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 with examples from Pompeii (d'Ambrosio and De Carolis 1997, 39 no. 65, tav.vii), Herculaneum (d'Ambrosio and De Carolis 1997, 96 no. 299, tav. xxx) and Oplontis (d'Ambrosio and De Carolis 1997, 71 no. 224, 225, tav. xxiii). The diameter of the rings vary from some 14mm to 20mm or so, but the smallest of them like t…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyth', grid reference and parish protected.