Record ID: DOR-790A2B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold faceted finger ring. The hoop is small and distorted. It is comprised of eight sub-circular facets, each with a faint transverse ridge across the diameter. Date: Roman - c. AD 200 - 300 Dimensions: 15.23 x 11.15 mm x 0.63 mm x 5.63 mm (height of band) Weight: 1.42 g Two similar rings have been recorded on the database in records HAMP-F7A356 (Treasure case 2011 T861) and BUC-E7B767 (Treasure case 2013 T669). In both records it is noted that the rings are of Henig type IX.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-8E97C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Gold solidus of Valens (AD 364-378), dating to AD 364-367 (Reece Period 19). Reverse: RESTITVTOR REI PVBLICAE, Emperor standing facing, head right, holding labarum and Victory on globe. Mint of Trier. RIC IX, p. 13, no. 1 var.; G. Depeyrot, Les monnaies d'or de Constantin II à Zénon (337-491), p. 113, no. 21/2.
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranborne Chase', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8FCC98
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman gold finger ring with a simple D-shaped hoop widening and thickening at the shoulders to the bezel which has an open lozenge shaped hole in the centre to hold a stone or intaglio, now missing. The shoulders and bezel have been formed of a flattened area of gold the long sides of which have been rolled inwards, to meet in the middle on the shoulders and to clasp the missing stone. The shoulders and bezel are thus hollow and the edges of the setting for the stone rough and slightly irregular where the edge has been pushed over the edge of the stone to hold it. The ring has been…
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Abbas CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-10A009
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Robertson 2000, 372 no. 1524: "During the excavation of the Romano-Celtic Temple inside the Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle: "a small hoard of four gold coins of Arcadius and Honorius found with a gold ring close outside the east wall of the temple (see plan pl. XXII)." ... The gold finger ring, 3/4 in. in diam., had a large bezel, 3/4 in. by 5/8 in., flanked by ornamental pellets. The stone was missing. (Cp. BM Cat. of Finger-rings (1907), pl. XIV, 508-13) R.E.M. (Sir Mortimer) Wheeler, and H. Mattingly, in Research Rep. Soc. Ant., XII (1943), 133, 267, 334, types, mints, f…
Created on: Friday 17th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Castle (Temple)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-29D957
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Oval box bezel from a 4th century gold finger-ring with dextrarum iunctio design. The backing plate and walls of the cell are formed of a single piece of gold. Within the cell is another thin sheet of gold decorated in repoussé with a pair of clasped hands surrounded by a beaded border. It is kept in place by a loose, chamfered band which extends around the inside of the cell and not affixed to the walls themselves. A twisted gold wire surrounds the outside of the cell, approximately a third of the way up the walls. A short remnant of a plain wire below this suggests oth…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.