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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-109438
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
This gold ring has a thin hoop engraved on the exterior with a foliate scroll. The background would have been originally enamelled, but no traces of enamel remain.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-9B6A22
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger-ring, measuring 25mm in diameter. The hoop is decorated with deeply grooved, twisted bands, within which are engraved the stems of flowers at each shoulder. The bezel is a flamboyant octagonal shape which is engraved with a merchant’s mark
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-201184
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver-gilt finger-ring bezel attached to a fragment of the hoop. The bezel is formed of a quatrilobe with cross-hatched decoration, with small projecting knops, one of which has broken off. The centre is set with a quatrefoil, also with cross-hatched decoration, surmounted by a small lozenge in high relief and decorated with an engraved X-shaped cross. The gilding is now worn. Maximum width: 14mm Width of hoop: 5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-3133EC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman finger ring, dating to c AD200 - 300. It is a D section narrow band, of which a short section remains on each side, with a relatively large flat oval bezel in which there is a setting for a stone or similar but is now empty. The bezel has slightly raised sides to hold the stone. The band is slightly hunched at the shoulders. Guiraud's (1989) Type 3b. Dimensions: 23.5mm in length; 12.6mm in width (across the bezel); 2g in weight.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 17th February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-DB5489
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete, but misshapen, silver medieval finger-ring with decorated bezel and shoulders, dating to c. 1100-1200 CE. The ring has a flat hoop, with a wider bezel, which comprises over half of its circumference. The bezel comprises seven panels of incised decoration, some areas retaining niello. Three primary panels (including the centre bezel) are each decorated with a cross-crosslet, the further four panels intersperse the cross panels and consist of narrow parallel grooves. Dimensions: External diameter: 23.7mm at widest point (band is squashed); thickness of…
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 3rd February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-B53A68
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A decorated finger ring of post Medieval date made from a low grade base silver alloy. The hoop has a flat cross-section and has moulded decoration to the exterior, comprising palm fronds alternating with cinqfoil rosettes of pellets. The applied bezel is a 4.7mm wide quatrefoil with a small heart incised onto it, possibly with a flame emerging from the top. The hoop has been crushed and is now distorted.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-B4A2BA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval gold finger ring, made from a rich yellow buttery gold, AD 1550-1650. The ring has been slightly compacted post deposition, giving it an elliptical appearance. The band is broad and D-shaped in cross section, with a capital Latin script inscription on the internal surface. The external inscription is arranged in three words, with floral designs between them. These words are: “THYNKE ON ME” and they are interspersed with small crosses. The band is highly decorative, with the design composed of an interlace which creates a series of lozenge-shaped …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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: SOM-066C42
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete post medieval gold “posy” finger ring, made from a rich yellow buttery gold. The band is narrow and D-shaped in cross section, with no external decoration or inscription. The Italic inscription is placed on the interior, and reads “Live in Love.” There is no clear maker’s mark, although a faint impression appears to resemble one, which is composed of three rings together within a rectangle. Dimensions: The ring is 20.4mm in diameter. The band is 3.09mm wide, and 1.23mm thick. It weighs 3.10g. Discussion: Oman (1974) states that Italic…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle', 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
Spatial data recorded.

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: WILT-3568DE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Fragment of a Roman copper alloy finger ring, probably dating to AD 43-300. The fragment consists of the bezel which is truncated by an old break on one side and tapers into the shoulder on the other, the latter is plano-convex in cross section and is similarly truncated by an old break. The shoulder is undecorated and whilst it appears to be keeled, this may be due to damage. The bezel is decorated with a deep groove which defines a central oval field, three short triangular points project inwards from this groove on each long edge. The central zone is filled by an engraved longitu…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

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
No spatial data available.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-0AC761
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A late medieval gold finger-ring, with a sapphire setting. The bezel is hexagonal and cusped with six flat lobes. The sapphire has six sides following the gemstones natural crystal habit. The hoop is not perfectly circular, but rather resembles a distended stirrup shape. The band is narrow at the rear, thickening as it nears the bezel. The band is decorated with a series of floral designs. From bezel downwards these show: two flower heads, each of five petals, above and sitting approximately between three long stems, each with multiple sets of paired leaves and appearing to grow from a…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-F16002
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small gold finger ring with enamelled decoration on the exterior and in internal inscription. The incised external decoration comprises two hearts on opposing sides, one flanked by hands, the other by birds, with trefoils and plant motifs between. There are traces of white and black enamel in some of the recesses. The internal inscription is in italic letters and reads I am but a token. There is an indistinct stamped mark at the end of the inscription. Date: c. 1700 - 1800 Diameter: 15.18 mm Band width: 3.38 mm Thickness: 0.96 mm Weight: 1.69 mm On the advi…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-5A8EB9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy finger ring, dating to AD 1150-1200. The incomplete hoop is D-shaped in cross section. The hoop is narrow and flares to a moulded oval ridge which has diagonal hatching It then tapers again to the bezel. The bezel is rectangular and flanked by short vertical ridges. At the centre is an oval shaped recess, probably for a missing glass or stone setting. The recess contains traces of a white material which may have been used to secure the setting. Reference: Egan and Pritchard (1991) p 328 no 1615 Diameter: 21.87 mm Width: 8.60 mm Thickeness: 3.08…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-B07DF9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold medieval iconographic finger-ring with rectangular bezel carrying a design of Mary Magdalene engraved in shallow relief. Mary Magdalene is unrecessed on a recessed background with the details picked out with incised lines. She is standing facing with her head turned to the left, she has uncovered hair and wears a long robe with mantle over and holds an ointment pot in her draped right hand. The ointment pot has a cylindrical base with two horizontal bands on it and a conical lid topped with a circle in a lozenge. The draped mantle runs across her left hand, her body …
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1041EE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt finger ring with external inscription. The hoop is circular and has a rectangular cross section. There is a perpendicular seam which has split at the end of the inscription. The surfaces are thinly gilded. The hoop is decorated on both edges with a pair of circumferential ridges framing a row of raised pellets. The area between the sets of ridges has an incised inscription in Roman capitals which reads: + I (trefoil) LYVE (trefoil) IN (trefoil) HOPE Date: Early Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 Dimensions: 20.54 mm x 8.04 mm x 1.51 mm Weight: 3.56 g There are se…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6EE3AE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy finger ring, One shoulder and part of the bezel only remains. The bezel has the remains of an oval recess for a missing glass or stone setting. The shoulder tapers from the edge of the bezel and is a shallow D-shape in cross section. Date: Roman - c. AD 43- 200 Dimensions: 15.77 mm x 14.80 mm x 3.67 mm Weight: 2.28 g
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-5B6DC4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring. The solid bezel is oval and decorated with a framing concentric groove around a row of three transverse grooves. The shoulders flanking the bezel are tapered into the band which has a D-shaped cross section. The band is distorted. Date: Medieval to Early Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Dimensions: 19.63 mm x 21.00 mm x 7.02 mm & band thickness 1.81 mm Weight: 1.98 g This ring is similar in style to signet rings, having the simple pattern of lines in place of letters. Similar to DOR-5B6057 found at the same place
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-5B6057
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring. The solid bezel is oval and decorated with a framing concentric groove around a row of three transverse grooves. The shoulders flanking the bezel are tapered into the band which has a D-shaped cross section. The band is distorted. Date: Medieval to Early Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Dimensions: 21.14 mm x 17.86 mm x 7.16 mm & band thickness 2.08 mm Weight: 2.02 g This ring is similar in style to signet rings, having the simple pattern of lines in place of letters. Similar to DOR-56BDC4 found in the same place
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-C0ACC8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman base silver finger ring. All that remains is half of the bezel of the and one rounded shoulders. The bezel is oval in shape and has a recess to accommodate an intaglio. It tapers into a rounded shoulder. It tapers into a narrow band. The shoulder and band are D-shaped in cross section. The surface of the ring is smooth and worn. The surface colour is patchily grey and brown indicating base silver. Date: Roman - c. AD 100 - 400 Dimensions: 20.91 mm x 12.86 mm x.79 mm Weight: 3.38 g This ring is similar to database record LVPL-7691D4 where Teresa Gilmore notes …
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F03043
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy finger ring, of Guiraud's type 2f, dating to c. AD 175-300. The finger ring is implete, comprising of only the upper section of the loop, truncated by old breaks on both sides. The loop survives to below the shoulder on one side, and is slightly carinated, with the shoulders flat in cross section and expanding into the bezel, which is decorated with an integral, domed boss. Length: 21.9mm; width: 11.7mm; thickness: 4.7mm; diameter of bezel: 8.1mm; weight: 4.16g. The carinated shoulders of the ring resemble Guiraud's (1989) type 2f, and it can be…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-B067A5
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. It is slightly misshapen.The concave exterior face is largely undecorated save for an section of incised recesses and line comprising a pair of circular recesses with a downward V shaped recess between and feather like lines around (this has an owl-like appearance). . The interior is inscribed in italic upper and lower case lettering: M G ob.27' feb' 1714 all flesh is grass At the end of the inscription is a makers mark of the crowned initials DA in a sun-angular recess. Date: Post…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B061BB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver finger ring with a coin of Postumus in the bezel
Created on: Monday 8th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheselbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-D1B964
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring with diamond setting dating to the medieval period. The ring has a square bezel the front of which rises evenly in a four sided pyramid the top point of which is formed by the four sided diamond embedded in the bezel. The diamond is probably a natural octahedra crystal and appears slightly grey in the setting. The four facets on the front of the bezel have horizontal striations from filing/hammering and are even in plane with the sides of the diamond. The sides of the bezel curve backwards, narrowing from the front to the flat back. The bezel connects directly int…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-BCA306
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper alloy ring seal dating to the 15th century AD. The band is rectangular in cross section, with wide flattened inner and outer faces and narrower sides which are also flat. The band expands slightly and evenly at the shoulders to meet the bezel which is a stretched octagon in plan. The bezel is decorated with a border of incised dashes placed less than 1mm in from its edge and flanked on the outer side by narrow incised straight lines and on the inner side narrow incised concave lines on most facets. Within the frame is a capital letter I. The end of each s…
Created on: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-2AFF05
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring with traces of gilding. The hoop is D-shaped in cross section with a narrow rim at each edge. The convex outer surface is decorated with moulded and incised triple-stranded chevrons forming a zig-zag around the hoop. The triple strand comprises a wider, deeper groove flanked by narrower shallower incised lines. The chevrons are in-filled with sexfoils formed of short radiating incised dashes. The flat inner surface of the hoop is undecorated and retains its gilding. There are traces of gilding on the external surface as well. Date: Post Medieval - 16th to 17th c…
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melcombe Horsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-5E4EDA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt finger ring with intaglio inlaid in the bezel. The bezel is formed of an octagon with exaggerated points, creating an 8 pointed star with a plain upper surface. At its centre is a possibly crystal intaglio, this is recessed from the front with an angled side to the setting. The intaglio is slightly damaged and depicts a right facing probably female bust with brushed back hair or headcloth and elaborate clothing at the neck. The band is trapezoidal in cross section, with the flat upper surface flanked on each side by two slanting surfaces, creating a flat space on eac…
Created on: Wednesday 9th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A1C76A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver Roman finger ring. Only the bezel and the stubs of the band remain. The remnants of the band are wide and flat. The rectangular bezel is raised from the band and thickened. It is decorated with an incised bird standing, head bowed. It has a recessed dot for an eye, clawed feet, its wing extended and three tail feathers. It is possibly holding a branch in its beak. Around the head are four groups of three recessed dots (three above and one below, the upper three joined by an incised line. The image is incised a frame of four incised lines, one along each edge. …
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clifton Maybank', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A1BC3F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold seal or signet ring. A thin band with a large oval bezel. The band is D-shaped in cross section and flares slightly into the shoulders. The bezel is flat and oval. It is decorated with and incuse beaded border around an incised image of a Talbot hound with a curled tail, one front foot raised and looking to its rear (passant regardant). It is shown wearing a collar. Above it are the reversed initials IB. The same initials have been incised on the rear of the bezel in Roman capitals. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 Dimensions: 20.41 mm x 13,05 mmm x 1.73 mm Weight: 6.06…
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytchett Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C010D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete composite gold finger ring in two separate pieces. The main band of the ring is of sheet gold with a separately applied strip bearing the chased inscription in relief. A broken separate thin gold band with an L-shaped profile was probably attached to form a rim around the edge of the main band and there may originally have been another such applied to the other edge (now missing). The inscription in Blackletter script is a rhyming couplet and reads: +cver de vray amy doit auior mercy Dr Malcolm Jones has translated this as: The heart of a true lover Must have m…
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Clenston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-44160E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring, probably Roman in date, consisting of a flat strip of metal bent into a penannular ring with both terminals narrowing to a point and overlapping slightly. The pointed ends suggest this could have been used as an earring, but they may also simply be narrowed to fit together when worn on the finger and penannular to allow for expansion. The ring may also been made from a broken fragment of a bracelet which are often penannular in the Roman period. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with three horizontal concentric grooves which converge towards the ends …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-7A5D2A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed late medieval/ early post-medieval (1400-1600) silver gilt finger-ring with raised edges and the band between with a central line of raised diamond shapes and corresponding raised triangles to either side. It has some edge damage. Where not damaged or worn, the diamond shapes are clearly filled with three rows of four raised pellets. The triangles are apparently undecorated. The inside of the hoop is smooth and undecorated. The finger-ring weighs 5.78g and has a squashed length of 30.2mm (probably close to the original diameter). The object has a width of 8.1mm and a max. …
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shapwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6BA717
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The exterior of the band is decorated with diagonal grooves and ridges. These are arranged as groups of three narrow ridges (two plain flanking a knurled one) with a deep groove separating each group. There is a difference in the colour of the gold in the grooves, possibly as a result of a layer of gilding over the rest of the surface which has been removed in creating the grooves. The grooves are a paler, yellower gold. Both edges of the band are decorated with small vertical notches. On the internal…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9B91E8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2018 T547: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: A complete gold finger ring with a gem inset bezel probably dating to the Post- Medieval period. The hoop would have originally been circular in profile but has been compressed from one side of the ring so that it is now sub-oval. The hoop is circular in cross section and even in thickness (1.2mm) until reaching near the bezel. At this point the hoop flattens and widens on both sides into a fleur de lis design, both of whose outer petals point out and away from the bezel. The central petals of the fleur de …
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton Fitzpaine CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-196156
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but bent and broken copper alloy finger ring with gilding. Date: Post Medieval. Diameter: 18.2mm. Thickness: 1.23. Weight: 2.95g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-5B81BB
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 broken at the rear and has an oval cross section. The bezel is thickened from the band with angled sides (forming a truncated triangle), There is an oval recess at the apex which has two conical depressions inside it, possibly for two gems or pieces of glass to have been set into it. Date: Medieval - c 1150-1450 Dimensions: 21.55 mm x 21.79 mm x 5.77 mm Weight: 2.89 g A similar ring is recorded in Egan G and Pritchard F, 1991, Dr…
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-A10F79
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy finger ring. The hoop is oval and D-shaped in cross section. The hoop is narrow at the rear and expands through the sloping shoulders into a flat, oval bezel. There is an oval recess in the bezel which probably originally held a glass or gemstone intaglio. A Henig Type XII ring Date: Roman - c. AD 200 - 300 Dimensions: 22.38 mm x 8.47 mm x 2.75 mm Weight: 5.15 g
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-0FBEFC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver gilt fede ring. The applied bezel and remnant of the band only remaining. The bezel is cast into the form of a heart, surmounted by two arches and flanked by quatrefoils. One of the arches is open the other solid and there are two small knops, one at the outer edge of each of them. The remaining band is rectangular in cross section. The surfaces retain heavy gilding apart from some wear to the front of the heart and the highest parts of other elements of the design. Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Dimensions: 17.21 mm x 11.62 mm x 2.63 mm …
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-EA831C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy intaglio finger ring dating to AD 200-300. The bezel contains a red material, possibly degraded glass, with no obvious decoration. A keeled finger ring. The D-sectionedband is narrow at the rear, expanding into broad, angled shoulders which are undecorated. The bezel is oval and framed by four notches. On the bezel is a raised oval reserve of metal creating a recess for the red intaglio. Date: Roman Height: 13.56 mm Diameter: 22.52 mm Thicknes: 2.39 mm Weight: 7.47 g
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-96CF08
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring inscribed AVE MARIA. A stirrup-shaped finger ring with a pointed, solid bezel terminating in a small rounded knop. The bezel is slightly inset from the band and is flat the sides. The band is rectangular in cross section. The outer face of the band is inscribed + AVE MARIA with short vertical dashes separating the letters. The letters are serifed. The As are flat-topped with a V shaped cross bar. The M is Roman and the E rounded. The inside of the band is undecorated. Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1400 Dimensions: 18.61 mm x 16.15 mm x 8.75 mm x 3.14 mm Weight:…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-71A271
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring dating to the Post Medieval period. The hoop is circular and is decorated with a continuous twisted cable design, it has a D-shaped cross section and is graduated in width, increasing towards the setting where a circular bezel is attached. The bezel has a rectangular section and bevelled edge to accomodate a moulded yellow glass disc which is decorated with seven raised pellets, six encircling the seventh which is central. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 Diameter: 20.29mm diameter , bezel width 8.96 mm, bezel thickness 5.68mm Weight: 2.89g. A proba…
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D6C674
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring probably dating to c.1400 - 1700. Sub-circular in shape with a D-shaped cross section with a flat inner surface and convex outer surface. The band is plain and undecorated. The surface of the ring has a well developed mid to dark green patina. Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval Dimensions: 25.71mm x 6.9 x 2.14mm. Weight: 7.52g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-DB3022
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy finger ring with an empty circular collet for an intaglio. The hoop is oval in profile and D-shaped in section, tapering from the wide (10 mm wide), slightly bevelled shoulders to the narrower base (4 mm wide) of the hoop. The roughly circular collet on the oval bezel is formed from a raised collar which creates a recess, now empty, which would have contained an intaglio made from glass or a gemstone. The collar of the collet is 9 mm in diameter and 2 mm in height, and the internal diameter of the collet for the stone is 7 mm. The ring likely belongs to Henig's (1974) …
Created on: Sunday 28th January 2018
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-805FB6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, silver gilt iconographic finger ring. The bezel is divided longitudinally into two sub-rectangular facets, both transversely concave, meeting in a pointed ridge at the middle. Either facet is engraved with an incised depiction of a robed and nimbed figure, perhaps an depicting the Annunciation (hhe archangel Gabriel and Mary). Either shoulder is decorated with a continuation of the central rib, incised with chevrons and flanked on each side by an incised double strand with a band of short incised diagonal lines at the outer edges. These elements are curved as they reac…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlebredy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-538251
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy finger ring of Henig Type III dating to 43 to 300 AD. The band is oval shaped and D-shaped in cross-section and expands from the shoulders to the outer section, which is the widest part of the ring. In the bezel there is an oval recess, now empty which would have contained an intaglio made from glass or a gem. Reference: The ring belongs to Henig's (1974) Type III, which are roughly of 1st to 3rd century AD date. A similar ring, with intaglio, was found during excavations at Colchester (Crummy 1983, p.48, fig.50, no.1786). Similar examples can be see o…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-E9A7ED
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE NUMBER 2017 T1124. Description: A silver gilt finger ring of medieval date now in two pieces. The finger ring is formed from a silver band which is rectangular in cross section. The hoop, which is now in two pieces, has a smooth interior but a multi-faceted external, formed of rectangular panels with raised edges and with each panel decorated with an incised saltire. The finger ring's bezel is broken and incomplete but is broadly lozenge-shaped in plan. A separate thin silver sheet, also lozenge-shaped and decorated with incised lines, has been soldered onto the bezel; s…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterbourn St. Martin CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C2456E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring of composite construction with an illegible external inscription, The ring comprises a hoop with flanged edges on the exterior and a separately applied plate (attached inside the flanges). The plate is moulded into eight raised, hollow rectangular knops, each separated by a deep vertical groove and decorated with a letter or incised line trefoil device. The knops are irregularly sized and one is damaged exposing the hollow interior and obscuring the letter or other decoration. The letters and other elements are arranged thus: S trefoil I (damaged) E trefoil N tref…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rampisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-995773
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy finger ring, dating to c. AD 43-250. The fragment comprises almost half of the ring, with the shoulder and a section of the bezel. The cross section at the shoulder is crescent-shaped, and the band tapers down from the shoulder into a point. At the bezel, a large part of the rounded recessed cell is present, which indicates the bezel is most likely oval-shaped. There is consistent thickness between the shoulder and the bezel. Length: 21.9mm, Width: at shoulder: 8.4mm; at head of bezel: 8.1mm; at break at bottom of band: 6mm, Thickness: at bezel: 1…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-9E086C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T956: Undergoing valuation Description: A Roman silver finger ring of Guiraud's type IId, with surviving intaglio. The hoop is undecorated and broadly D-shaped in form, with a flattened bezel and broad, slightly carinated shoulders. The latter are D-shaped in cross-section, narrowing and becoming rounder towards the base of the hoop. A flat, oval engraved intaglio, red-orange in colour and probably of carnelian, is set into and is largely level with the bezel, with it extending to the edge. Engraved into the surface of the intaglio is a depiction of a female figu…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Keyneston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-764317
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete silver gilt fede ring, now consisting of the applied bezel and partial hoop. The bezel is cast into the form of a winged heart, surmounted by a crown and with further details engraved into the surface of the crown and wings. The loop is sub-rectangular in cross section, and appears to have incorporated openwork elements, although these are truncated by an unworn break. Dimensions: 17.94 mm x 11.71 mm x 3.49 mm Weight: 2.47 g Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Discussion: Similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a numbe…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-763C3C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A Post-Medieval gold posy ring. The ring consists of a gold band, plano-convex in cross section, and with the exterior decorated with a scrolled foliate motif, reserved against a recessed band with small traces of white enamel surviving in places. The interior is inscribed "Absence is no let to love,", in an italic script. There are no maker's or hall marks. Dimensions: 18.82 mm x 3.5 mm x 1.3 mm Weight: 2.30g Date: Post-Medieval - c. 1650-1750 Discussion: Posy rings with longer, italic inscriptions tend to date to after the mid-17th century, though they can occa…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75F9FC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A Post-Medieval enamelled gold posy ring. The ring consists of a gold band, plano-convex in cross section, and with the exterior decorated with a recessed foliate motif, retaining both white and green enamel in situ. The interior is inscribed "Free consent breeds much content", in an italic script. There are no maker's or hall marks. Dimensions: 18.41 mm x 4.42 mm x 1.45 mm Weight: 3.66 g Date: Post-Medieval - c. 1650-1750 Discussion: Posy rings with longer, italic inscriptions tend to date to after the mid-17th century. Similar inscriptions can be seen on SUSS-9…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lillington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75D2A7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with an external inscription. The band is flat and broad. It is decorated with triple strand ridges along the top and bottom edges framing the linear inscription. The capital serifed Roman letters have been incised on to the ring and read LOVE + AND + OBAYE. The ring has been cut through vertically at the start of the inscription and has several angular bends making it faceted. Dimensions: 23.09 mm x 7.38 mm x 0.78 mm Weight: 4.18 g Date: Early Post Medieval c. 1500 - 1600 Discussion: A similarly inscribed ring, although of copper alloy, is recorded in dat…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Orchard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BBEF3A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy finger ring with a broken hoop. One side of the hoop is bent outwards but would have originally have formed an oval in profile. The hoop is D-shaped in cross section with projecting convex altering to concave ridged shoulders which rise to a high oval bezel. The edge of the setting is faceted and decorated with two pairs of vertical ridges on either side. The setting is filled with a white material, probably degraded and discoloured glass or enamel which probably had intaglio decoration. Date : Roman c. AD 150 - 300 Dimensions: 42.69 mm x 27.01 mm x 5.81 mm Weight: …
Created on: Monday 9th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9156AA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring. The thin band is D-shaped in cross section. There is a separately applied quatrefoil bezel with crudely shaped pointed foils and a pellet in a square recess at the centre. The foils also have a transverse groove across each of them. Dimensions: 24.40 mm x 22.64 mm x 7.59 mm, Band dimensions 3.00 mm x 1.28 mm Weight: 2.56 g Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1300 Beverly Nenk of the British Museum has suggested a 13th century date for this ring.
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shipton Gorge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-159705
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete post-medieval silver gilded finger-ring, dating to the period AD 1500-1550. It measures 23.21mm in diameter, 7.12mm in thickness and weighs 6.66g. The decoration is framed by two ridged rims, one either side, which run the entirety of the finger-ring. In between are triangular sections of raised dots, approximately 21 in each section. Again, these triangular sections are enclosed by a ridged rim, and alternate from top to bottom. There is no discernible decoration or writing in the inside band. Discussion and Date: This style of ring is typical for the very early Post-…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fontmell Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-0759FE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt medieval finger ring that is surmounted by a thick sexfoil bezel. The bezel has seven recessed semicircles on the top edge arranged with one centrally and the others positioned in each of the six petals of the sexfoil. The shoulders are short with a narrow waist and expand to the straight sided rectangular hoop. The hoop is has seven transverse bars that divide the surface in to eight rectangular panels with bevelled sides, each panel is decorated with an incised lozenge border that has an inward projecting line in the centre of all four sides, thereby creating a quatref…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-707012
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  Gold ring, made of two twisted gold rods of round section. The two ends are knotted round each other. The ring has been bent into an oval shape. Probably Viking, 9th-11th century. Dimensions: 29 x 17.5mm and 2.5 mm in section. Weight 3.98g Discussion: The form of the ring is consistent with Viking manufacture, although a ring of only two twisted rods would be unusual. Modern imitations of Viking jewellery are not uncommon and are often inspired by Viking designs rather than direct copies, so the possibility that this fits into that category cannot be excl…
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Okeford Fitzpaine CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-218649
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt finger ring fragment which is missing the lower half of the hoop. The top of the ring has a tri-faceted bezel that has a different pattern of incised lines decorating each of the concave faces. Firstly the left panel is decorated with a zigzag line that is surrounded by a rectangular border; the left side is shaded with closely packed hatched lines creating three dark peaks. The central panel has a rectangular border divide by four evenly spaced transverse lines creating a line of five squares; a small transverse line intersects each side of the squares. On the right panel…
Created on: Friday 21st July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2017
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Record ID: WILT-639AF4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy Roman finger-ring, Henig type VIII, dating to the period AD 43-200. It measures 18.17mm in height and at maximum width, 21.06mm. The bezel is broadly rectangular in shape, measuring 8.04mm in length, 6.38mm wide and 2.24mm thick. The bezel is decorated with ten oval punches. The bezel rests on a rectangular base, 15.26mm in length and 1.45mm wide, before it tapers downwards in a triangular fashion, where it connects to the lower half of the ring. This is the widest part of the ring, at 21.06mm, and measures at 3.17mm thick, but tapers inward at the base of the …
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: DOR-4CEC5A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description A complete post-Medieval gold finger ring. The ring has a hexagonal bezel, set with a finely faceted garnet which projects from the bezel; convex in profile. Each lateral face of the bezel is decorated with a rectangular facet, with a lower border in slight relief, with a central upwards pointed projection. The underside of the bezel is 'keeled' and faceted, with each bearing a foliate motif left reserved against a niello inlaid field. The hoop is circular in cross-section, with shoulders decorated in the same fashion. Dimensions: 22.37 mm x 6.39 mm …
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4CD021
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of silver finger ring. The rectangular bezel and parts of the shoulders remain. The band is D-shaped in cross section at the shoulders. The shoulders are faceted with two triangles above a probably lozengiform panel. The triangles are decorated with raised, angular trefoils, and the lower panel on the more complete side contains an angular quatrefoil. The bezel is rectangular and is decorated with raised gothic lettering comprising the Christogram IhC on a hatched ground. There are traces of gilding on the exterior surfaces. Inscription: IhC Date: Medieval - 1300 - 15…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Keyneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4CA527
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The ring has been squased flat. The band flat and rectangular in cross section. The exterior surface is decorated with three bands of incuse squares running around the band creating a "waffle" pattern over the whole surface. On the interior surface is an inscription in serifed Roman capital letters. Inscription: LOVE FOR LOVE Date: Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval - c. 1450 - 1650 Dimensions: 25.82 mm x 3.32 mm x 0.76 mm Weight: 1.57 mm
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-DFA52E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval or Early Post Medieval silver gilt finger ring, 24mm in diameter, 7mm wide and 1.5mm thick with a weight of 5.61grams. The finger ring is formed of a flat band with a rectangular cross section and it has a gap in its loop, probably where the solder has failed. It is decorated on the outside with a raised border. Inside this are two zig-zag incised lines which form a series of central 'diamond' cells flanked by triangular ones filling the rest of the field. Each 'diamond' shaped cell has 11 or 12 sub spherical projections tighlty packed and each triangular…
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: DOR-CB6B77
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold finger ring inscribed on the inner side. The ring is D shaped in cross section with flattened facets top and bottom, a convex outer face and flat inner face. The outer face is plain with some minor indents and scratches. The inner is inscribed with a posy in italic script: Gods blessing bee on thee and mee. The uprights are elongated and curled and the tail of the final e extended. There is no makers mark. Dimensions: 22.6 mm in diameter by 4.8 mm by 2.2 mm Weight: 8.14 g Date: Post Medieval - c. 1650-1750 Discussion: The length and style of inscription would …
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75C12B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A small undecorated gold finger ring. The band is rectangular in cross section, with a slightly circumferentially concave exterior surface. There are no maker's or hall marks. Dimensions: 17.33 mm x 1.07 mm Weight: 1.85 g Date: Unknown Discussion: It is difficult to parallel such a plain object, and in the absence of any maker's or hall marks the ring cannot be definitively dated to pre-1718. Thus whilst the ring does appear to comprise of more than 10% precious metal, it cannot be said with certainty that it was 300 years old at the time of finding and theref…
Created on: Saturday 1st July 2017
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Folke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E9F792
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy finger ring, probably dating to c. 1200-1450. The ring has a sub-circular hoop, 21.9mm wide by c. 19.3mm, cast integrally with the bezel. The hoop is sub-circular in cross section and has an irregular thickness, 1.6mm at its maximum. The bezel is circular in plan and biconical with truncated top and bottom giving a hexagonal cross section, 5.7mm thick, with both the upper and lower halves of roughly equal size. The bezel is 7.7mm in diameter. Positioned centrally within the bezel is a circular cell, containing an unidentified white material. This material fills…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-060FD4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, possibly Roman, copper-alloy finger-ring of Henig Type IX/Guiraud type 9a. Dating to c AD 200 - 400. The hoop is polygonal with eight external facets (octagonal), made up of four flat bezel type faces alternating with four groups of two beads. Each of the bezels is scored with a diagonal line, the angle alternating from one bezel to the next. The inside of the hoop is flat. The ring measures 20.98mm in diameter (internal 17.46mm) and weighs 1.93g. Each of the bezels is c4.85mm wide and c7.87mm in length, c 1.26mm thick, the beads c3mm in diameter and 2mm thick. Various…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-D01838
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T299: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: A gold finger ring of likely medieval date. The integral circular hoop is largely plain, with a significant dent in one side, obscuring the original diameter. The cross section is broadly D-shaped, with a flat internal surface, though becoming increasingly rounded towards the base of the hoop. In width, the hoop tapers from 2.4mm just below the elaborated shoulders to 1.1mm at the base of the hoop, in thickness the hoop reduces from 1.2mm below the shoulders to 0.9mm at the base. The shoulders bifurcate, with the …
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 9th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stinsford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-FC41CC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper part of a Post Medieval copper-alloy finger ring with a wide, plain and flat circular bezel. The band is narrow, measuring 4.36mm in width.
Created on: Monday 20th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Record ID: DOR-FF639C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete, but damaged, silver gilt finger fede ring, with plano-convex band and with the bezel cast into a three-dimensional depiction of two clasped hands, projecting from cuffs. The interior of the band is plain. Dimensions: 26.00 mm x 20.94 mm x 3.13 mm Weight: 3.76 g Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Discussion: Although typically with a plano-convex bezel, rather than three dimensional as here, similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a number have been reported through the treasure process and are recorded on the PAS databas…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Iwerne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FEEB7A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete Post Medieval silver fede ring, with only the bezel surviving. This is cast into the form of two clasped hands surmounted by an openwork single-arched crown, with the fingers defined by incised lines. The band is plano-convex in cross section, with the interior plain. Leached copper alloy impurities have formed a patch of corrosion on the interior of the band. Dimensions: 10.70 mm x 1.99 mm Weight: 1.51 g Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Discussion: Similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a number have been reported …
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-69A89D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval gold finger ring with black namel decoration, mourning ring dated to 1717. The ring is D-shaped in cross section with a flat inner side. The inner side is inscribed: I . W. obijt . 9 Apr 1717 . etatis sua . 71 with an widened shaded capital I and contraction line over the p in Apr. This can be expanded and traslated as: I W died 9th April 1717 at the age of 71. The outer side is decorated with raised foliate designs and one large four petalled flower. There is a skull to one side marked by the triangular nose pit, circular eye pits with cross extending from the inner sid…
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-76FCB7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of silver gilt finger ring. The bezel and shoulders only remaining. The bezel is bi-faceted, divided by a central ridge. On each side of this it is concave with smaller ridges at each edge. Each facet is decorated with incised line decoration arranged symmetrically. The decoration comprises a group of three transverse lines at either end, each with radiating diagonal lines forming a tuft-like element and surrounded by randomly placed dots. Between these on each facet is a central group of five transverse lines. The bezel is divided from the shoulders to each side by a deeply…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-76E494
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold posy ring with an internal inscription. The band is narrow and D-shaped in cross section. It is slightly misshapen with two dents in one edge. The inscription is in Roman capitals and reads A FREND TO INDVRE with small sprigs between the words and at the end. Date: Post Medieval- early 17th century Dimensions: 18.48 mm x 3.02 mm x 0.95 mm Weight: 1.61 g In general Roman capitals began to be used for inscriptions on posy rings from the mid-16th century and were replaced by Italics by the second quarter of the 17th century (Oman 1974, 40-41). This ring, fairly long posy…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E2EFC9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring with an external inscription. The band is flat with a rectangular cross section and is slightly mis-shapen. On the exterior is an incised blackletter inscription with the words alternating with sprigs. Date: Medieval - 1350 - 1450 Dimensions: 19.03mm x 0.98 mm Weight: 2.59 g Malcolm Jones has transcribed the inscription as: coer corps et vye -"heart, body and soul/life" and has noted that "life" can be taken to equate with "soul" in this context.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9899B1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2016 T925; Description: A Roman silver finger ring, dating to the third century. The ring has an oval hoop with straight sub-triangular sloping shoulders, although now worn, these appear to have originally had a wide central ridge. At the base of these shoulders the hoop of the ring changes direction at a distinct carination. At the apex of the ring between the two shoulders there is a raised circular bezel. This bezel is decorated with a linear band of decoration, with a slightly off-centre incised line flanked by two bands of chevrons. Each chevron is comprised of t…
Created on: Monday 14th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Blandford Forum', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-76F96C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription 'As . God . Hath . apointed . so . am . I . contented'. The outside curved edge is undecorated. Originally circular this finger ring is now slightly squished. Discussion: Two examples are recorded on the British Museum database which have a similar inscription albeit with slight variations on the spelling 1961,1202.201 As God hath appoynted I am contented' and 1961,1202.202 '* 8 As . god hath apoynted, so am I Contented' and have been given a general 17th-18th century date. Two fur…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.