Record ID: BERK-F6CA1A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold posy ring dated to c. AD1682-1711. The ring is a plain band, slightly distorted, with an inscription on the inside. The inscription reads “Vertue gaineth glory”. There is a makers mark on the ring reading BC. A ring with the same inscription in the British Museum (AF.1315, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_AF-1395) is dated by a maker's mark to AD1682-1711. Another with a maker's mark is recorded on the PAS database (IOW-570400).
Created on: Friday 18th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finchampstead CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-95B0C7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold Medieval gem set finger ring dating c. AD 1200-1400. The setting comprises a dark red cabochon-cut stone set in a sub-rectangular bezel with bevelled sides.  Four small circular collets (2.48mm in diameter) are positioned at each corner of the central setting. The base of the collets are set on single ribs which run down each edge of each shoulder. Two collets contain complete circular cabochon-cut mid-green gems, one the crushed remains of an identical stone and the remaining collet is empty. The central stone is possibly a ruby a…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Finchampstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-2E7341
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain copper-alloy Roman finger ring with a flattish oval or circular bezel, slightly rounded on the top. The sides of the ring have double nicks below the bezel which accentuate the shoulders and make them look triangular. Most of the rest of the hoop is missing. Compare NLM-9AAEB7, and the more elaborate SF-8A41DA, SWYOR-4B9B77, LVPL-3EDB47, etc. 3rd century AD.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2021
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Record ID: BERK-49A5B4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver finger ring or mount of later post-medieval date (c. 18th century). The ring is now oval in plan and has a D-shaped cross section. The ring is decorated with raised saltires around the entirity of the outer hoop. The inner hoop is plain and undecorated. The finger ring has been made from a strip of silver which has been cut and then soldered together to obtain the correct size; the soldering has damaged the decoration on the outer hoop and could be considered untidy for a finger ring of this date in silver, which indicates that it may not have functioned as a finger …
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2016
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Record ID: WMID-FD5D7B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy signet finger ring, of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating (c. AD 1450 to c. AD 1650). Approximately 50% of the finger ring is present, consisting of the bezel, shoulders and part of the hoop. The rest of the hoop is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The bezel is sub rectangular in plan. The device is uncertain, but probably depicts the letter W, with two diagonal wedges above, within an oval cartouche. The shoulders are straight and taper straight into the hoop. The hoop is oval in section. The reverse of the finger ring is plain and undeco…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-353647
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Published
A Post-Medieval gold posy ring, inscribed with In thee I find content of mind on the inside of the hoop, followed by a maker's mark, possibly RC. The finger-ring measures 20.77mm in diameter (internal diameter 17.47mm) and weighs 5.51g. In cross-section, the hoop is basically D-shaped but with each internal edge bevelled. The outside of the hoop is convex. The maker's mark is not identifiable and therefore there is not enough evidence to say that this finger-ring is over 300 years old. Thus it falls outside of the remit of the Treasure Act.
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finchampstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-67BA56
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The larger part of a cast copper alloy signet finger ring of later 15th or 16th century date. Only a short section of the narrow D-section hoop is missing. The integral bezel is crudely engraved with an initial I below a crown. There is a branch or spray to either side.
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2014
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Record ID: BH-3AACB0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval gold finger-ring with a hexagonal facetted bezel with four claws to hold a stone, now missing. A plain thin hoop, now distorted, with a small split lengthways along one edge. The finger-ring dates to the 13th century. Dimensions: width 21 mm, height of bezel 11 mm, width of bezel 12 mm. Weight: 2.18g. Beverley Nenk, Curator of Medieval Collections, British Museum.
Created on: Friday 1st November 2013
Last updated: Friday 23rd January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shinfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-688892
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Posy ring, perhaps once gilded. The exterior of the D-section hoop is plain. Internally is the inscription 'love god n love all'
Created on: Monday 29th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2013
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Record ID: SUR-6A3232
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Published
A gold and enamelled posy ring. The ring is in the form of a simple band, engraved in one place with a heart which perhaps forms the bezel. To each side of the heart is a pair of birds made from engraved lines inlaid with in white enamel; the birds face the heart. Behind each bird is what appears to be a patch of grass, several oblique engraved lines inlaid with green enamel. Opposite the heart is an area of interlace picked out in white enamel. It may be that the heart was picked out in red enamel but this no longer survives; elsewhere the survival of the enamel is patchy. Within …
Created on: Thursday 25th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 22nd September 2014
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Record ID: BERK-66FCB2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Published
This heavy gold ring with D-shaped section is decorated on the exterior with pansy sprays and other flowers, once enamelled though no traces of the enamel survive. There is no mark or inscription to confirm the dating but the type is generally dated to the second half of the 17th or early 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shinfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.