Record ID: DOR-024514
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An complete copper alloy finger ring.  The ring is keeled and has a blind bezel. The sloping shoulders are triangular and undecorated. The downward points of the triangles are flanked by angled projections. The band is narrow and D-sectioned. The bezel is hexagonal and decorated with stamped circular dots but it is too worn to discern any pattern. The inside of the ring is flat and smooth. Similar to Henig type VIII Date: Late Roman- AD 200 - 300 Dimensions: 24.73 mm x 10.19 mm x 16.01 mm Weight: 4.79 g See DOR-0278B5
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 10th March 2024
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Record ID: DOR-021A5C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy finger ring, dating to AD 200 - 300. The narrow hoop is D-shaped in cross section and the sloping shoulders are flared into the recessed oval bezel. The empty recess probably originally held a glass or gemstone intaglio. The ring is a Henig type XII. Dimensions: 21.62 mm x 15.00 mm x 2.82 mm Weight: 3.50 g See DOR-5B5CC1
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2023
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Record ID: DOR-E055D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The internal inscription on crude upper and lower case lettering reads: Yours in (heart). The heart is a symbol for love. There is a split in the band where it has posiibly been cut to resize it. The exterior is undecorated. Date: Post Medieval Dimensions: 3 mm width Weight.: 2 g Rachel King of the British Musaum has kindly commented: "I would place this ring as 17th or 18th century on comparison with BM examples. Thinner hoops tend to suggest a date of this range. I can’t see anything…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton & Winkton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CA338D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval gold finger ring. A posy ring with the internal inscription Let vertue be thy guide in italic lettering. There is no maker’s or other mark. The hoop has a D-shaped cross section and is slightly distorted into an oval shape. Dimensions: 21.70 mm x 2.25 mm x 0.80 mm Weight: 1.78 g This inscription is common on rings from the later 17th to mid-18th century. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum has noted that in the absence of a makers mark there is insufficient evidence to confirm that the ring was over 300 years old when fond in 2021 (pers comm 18/11/2022).
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-48DE31
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring. The bezel is formed of a series of transverse rectangular mouldings, two on both left and right shoulder, and two surrounding a central plate containing a raised copper alloy square projection. The hoop is narrow and tapers slightly to the back of the ring. The ring is slightly flattened and bent. Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval c. 1400 - 1600 Dimensions: 21.8 mm x 20.65 mm Thickness: 1.43 mm (band) Weight: 1.33 g The central projection may be intended to imaitate a gem setting.
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-B6EE15
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring. Roman in date. It has a wide band, is wide shouldered. It has an oval recess which is empty and possibly too shallow for a gemstone to be set into it. The recess is oval shaped and has a raised collar. It falls within the Guiraud Type 4 category. Weight: 3.14 g. Diameter: 20.15 mm. Thickness: 2.29 mm.
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Record ID: DOR-945569
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy finger ring, dating to AD 200 - 300. The remnant of the narrow hoop is D-shaped in cross section and the sloping shoulders are flared into the recessed oval bezel. The recess probably originally held a glass or gemstone intaglio. The ring is a Henig type XII. Date: Roman - C AD 200 - 300 Dimensions: 22.18 mm x 13.00 mm x 2.82 mm Weight: 2.56 g Dimensions: 7.04 mm x 3.29 mm. Weight: 2.13 g. Similar to database records DOR-D8EDDE and DOR-6EE3AE
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: DOR-0071E4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring. A D-sectioned, round hoop with a raised oval bezel. The shoulders expand into the bezel and are both decorated with a tau cross (a T-shaped cross with all three ends expanded). The face of the bezel is flat and undecorated. Date: Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval c. 1450 - 1550 Dimensions: 23.99 mm x 22.74 mm x 3.73 mm Weight: 5.18 g The tau cross is associated with Saint Anthony of Egypt and Saint Francis of Assisi See PAS database record LIN-D1EFDA - 2014T491 for discussion about the use of the tau motif shape and dating which shows popula…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 21st January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-364BBF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A gold finger ring with an internal inscription. The hoop is D-shaped in cross section. On the flat interior surface is two line inscription in Italic lettering. There are incised guidelines visible under the inscription. The inscription reads: The eye doth finde the hart doth chuse Faith doth finde and death doth loose Next to the inscription is a maker’s mark in a shield- DA Dimensions: 24.43 mm x 4.70 mm x 2.78 mm Weight: 10.21 g Date: Post Medieval – c. 1650 - 1730 Discussion: Since at least the middle of the nineteenth century (Waterton 1859, …
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-882C6D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy finger ring with an empty oval setting. The ring is "stirrup-shaped" and has bevelled inner edges to the band. The band is triangular in cross section and somewhat misshapen. The bezel is thickened from the band with angled sides (forming a truncated triangle), There is a sub-circular recess at the apex with traces of white material retained in it. On either side the shoulders are decorated with diagonal incised lines. Date: Medieval - c 1150-1450 Dimensions: 21.81 mm x 2.15 mm Weight: 0.59 g A similar ring is recorded in Egan G and Pritchard F, 1…
Created on: Friday 10th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-A0F75A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy finger ring . A disc shaped bezel with remnants of the shoulders and band. The disc has a raised rim forming a recess at the centre of which is a second circular reserve of metal forming a smaller concentric recess. Attached to the disc in the outer recess are four separately applied copper alloy bars dividing it into four, slightly unequal quadrants. The bars are attached through the disc with integral circular sectioned rivets the ends of which are flush with the rear surface of the disc. The front surface of the disc is scored, possibly to provide keyin…
Created on: Friday 5th June 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
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Record ID: DOR-62FA91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small gold finger ring with an internal inscription. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The exterior, convex surface is decorated with a pattern of six evenly spaced quatrefoils with linear designs between and forming a lozengiform frame around each. It is possible that the recesses of the quatrefoils once contained enamel. The internal surface is inscribed in upper and lowercase italics with a recessed dot between each word and at the end. The inscription reads Mutata ab illa (perhaps translating as She is changed - see below for detailed discussion by Rachel KIng) Date: Post…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytchett Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BD6785
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver finger ring. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The outer surface is decorated with six regularly spaced diagonal grooves flanked by shallow incised lines. Each space between the grooves the surface is decorated with three rows of raised pellets with a plain framing band at either edge. There are traces of gilding on the exterior surface. The inside of the band is undecorated. Date: Post Medieval - 1500 - 1600 Dimensions: 25.94 mm x 2.16 mm Weight: 4.67 g Discussion:  There are number of finger rings with a similar style of decoration recorded on the PAS data…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1A0895
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Post-Medieval copper-alloy finger ring, dating to AD 1600-1800. The ring has a thick circular band, flat on the inner surface and at the sides,  and is decorated with ten raised, conjoined lozenges around the centre of the circumference. The outer surface shows traces of gilding. The ten raised areas suggest that this may be a form of  "decade" ring. Such rings were intended to assist in the saying of the rosary. Diameter: 24.69 mm Width: 4.88 mm Thickness: 3.31 mm Weight: 6.72 g
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C7C656
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold finger ring with decorated shoulders and a faceted projecting bezel. The bezel is now empty, but originally held a gem setting. The band is rectangular in cross section and flares into lozengiform shoulders which then extend into the base of the four-sided, hollow bezel. The shoulders are recessed and decorated with a triangular foliate motif with two curlicues extending from the tip, all in relief. The shoulders may originally have held enamel around the motifs. The sides of the bezel are high and angled slightly inwards. Each has U-shaped moulding which fills the…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-0F8D88
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval gold and rock crystal 'momento mori' finger ring, dating to AD 1680 - 1720. The hoop is circular with a D-shaped cross-section. The bezel is oval set with a domed and facetted rock crystal or glass stone secured by a scalloped rim with foliate decoration. Beneath the stone is black fabric background on to which is sewn twisted gold wire. The gold wire is sewn in a looping border. Inside the border the wire has become detached and jumbled, but may have originally formed personal initials as seen on other rings of this type (e.g. OXON-9A2E11). The underside of …
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BA5EE8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The hoop is narrow and D-shaped in cross section. The internal inscription is in an italic letter style with a chevron pointing to the right at the end. It reads: Acsept my love There is no makers mark Date: Post Medieval Dimensions: 19.08 mm x 2.29 mm x 1.24 mm Weight: 1.72 g It is not possible to securely date this ring as over three hundred years old at the time of discovery, therefore it was not subject to the Treasure Act. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum comments: in the absence of a datable maker's mark, there is not …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: DOR-551573
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with external inscription. It is of composite construction, comprising five separate bands. The wide central band is flanked by a narrow band of filigree wire and an outer, angled rim on each side. The central band is recessed to accommodate a separately applied strip of paler gold which bears a Medieval French blackletter inscription in relief, reading as follows: +loiautet (5 five cinquefoils) pas tout (5 five cinquefoils) - translating as Loyalty Passes All The inscription band may once have been enamelled. There are no marks inside the band. The outer rim a…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bettiscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-54EF8E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded silver finger ring of composite construction. The bezel and part of the band (broken into three pieces) remain. The lozenge-shaped bezel has a scalloped outer edge and is decorated with five small raised knops applied to the front of the plate, one in each remaining corner and a lower one at the centre.The surface is decorated with four groups of incised radiating lines emanating from the central knop. The front of the plate is gilded, the rear is not. A remnant of the broken gilded silver hoop is soldered to the rear of the plate behind the points on shorter, hor…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bettiscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-13B988
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete late medieval to early post medieval finger ring, dating to c. AD 1400 - 1600. The hoop of the finger ring is circular and D-shaped in section which expands to an integral flat oval bezel. The bezel is designed with four incised chevrons, three are placed so that they form the shape of a heart, the last chevron sits above the heart to form a lozenge shape. The shoulders are narrowed and undecorated, the hoop is also undecorated. There are file marks on the rear of the bezel and the inside of the hoop. Diameter: 24.39 mm Thickness: 1.39 mm Weight: 3.31 g
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th November 2019
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