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: WILT-5EEBCB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete possibly Roman copper alloy finger ring dating to cAD 75 - 250. Probably Henig type II, Guiraud type 2 a-e. What remains is the upper part of the D shape section hoop,and the setting. which is almost circular, flush with the line of metal, and would have held an intaglio or similar.  Dimensions: 20.7mm across (less than diameter); 8.9mm wide at bezel; 2.31g in weight
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 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: SUSS-E42E4C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval gold inscribed posy finger ring dating c. AD 1550 - 1650. The hoop is complete but crushed with a plano-convex cross-section. The external surface is decorated in a foliate style with a single, incised wavy groove or tendril running the circumference of the hoop with a scroll in each angle, all set within a panel bordered by a single groove on each outside edge. Tiny traces of black enamel survive in the recesses in two areas. The ring is inscribed on the internal surface, rendered in tidy serifed Roman capitals reading: + [c…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Martinstown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-38F466
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman finger-ring with glass intaglio, Henig type II, dating to c. AD 100-300. The bezel is wide and oval and tapers smoothly into the shoulders. The base of the hoop has apparently been cut, but then the ends overlapped to close it. In the centre of the bezel is a recess that holds an oval, split (light on top, dark beneath), blue intaglio (11 by 9 mm) the back of which can be seen through a hole in the back of the bezel. The intaglio is likely a blue glass and paste in imitation of nicolo. The intaglio had an engraving which has been lost …
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hilton', 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: BM-110BD3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A characteristic Victorian snake ring.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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