Record ID: NMS1607
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ornamental gold finger-ring with a thin hoop with deeply engraved foliate ornament on the shoulders, once filled with enamel, and a deep rectangular box bezel with arcade pattern all round containing remains of pale blue enamel. The stone is missing and the hoop has been squashed out of shape. It weighs 1.85g. There are very close parallels for both shape and decoration among the mourning rings of the 1660s and 1670s in the British Museum. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BAWBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1611
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold post-medieval posy finger-ring, broad plain band (width 7mm, internal diam.19mm) with inscription around the inner face: Rather dye then fayth denye * Weighs 9.04g, 0.32oz. The inscription, with variant spellings, is recorded by Joan Evans (English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford, 1931, p. 90) in a manuscript of 1596 and in Loves Garland, a compilation of posies published in 1624. Early 17th century. Compare NMS261.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH ELMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2453
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
EPM Ae incomplete signet ring, oval bezel with monogram of I S (or S I), hoop broken.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUNWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BE03A7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Ae finger ring, plain D-sectioned band, internal dia.16mm.
Created on: Monday 21st July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-5012E0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Ae finger ring, flattened D-shaped section, decorated with alternating rectangular panels, four with octofoils, five with two diagonally opposed quarter flowers on patterned field, internal dia.19mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aylsham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-3BC4E7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A plain gold finger-ring formed of a D-sectioned hoop
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blakeney', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-0CBD17
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possiblly post-medieval gold finger ring, narrow D-sectioned band (2mm), internal dia.17mm
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shotesham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-0F1283
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval copper alloy finger ring, circular bezel on broken plain band (internal dia.approx.23mm), engraved seal matrix with tree between I R. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS560
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy finger-ring, D-sectioned, bent, original internal diameter 17mm. Inscription around inside reads: 'Knitt [n']one by god alone Stamped B, Goldsmith's mark ?17th century
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BURNHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1034
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Ae finger ring, distorted, plain flattened D-sectioned band with butted ends, internal dia.approx.18mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUNHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1369
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Ae finger ring, plain squashed and bent.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CONGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1418
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Ae fragment of seal ring, oval setting with glass intaglio, profile bust of young man, ?late 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CARLETON RODE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS568
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Silver woven wire finger ring. Plain narrow hoop, broken at base. Plain, slightly flaring shoulders. The head of the ring comprises five interwoven loops, the junctions of which are marked with small rounded silver knobs (four in total). Damaged, but diameter of hoop circa 18mm. Medieval, possibly 15th C.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKMERE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS571
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring, broken, hollow-cast, beading around outside edge of oval setting for glass intaglio engraved with bird (?hawk) displayed, on grass knoll, pale green colouring behind intaglio, most of loop missing, late 18th/ early 19th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIVETON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AB3402
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gold finger-ring or posy ring with D-sectioned hoop and without bezel. On the inner face a hallmark of a lion passant guardant, a maker's mark I · K and an inscription: No riches like content 19mm. Dimensions: Weight 1.30g. Width 2mm. Thickness 1mm. Discussion: The maker's markis not identified, there are no comparisons in the British Museum collections and there is no matching example in Jackson, English Goldsmiths and their marks. See ring AF.1353 in British Museum collections, with same inscription and a maker's mark (JC in rectangular punch) …
Created on: Friday 28th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 17th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0F3138
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval silver finger ring fragment. Circular bezel with incised 'P' (or stylised bird head) with heart below, surrounded by a boarder of petals. Weight 2.49 grams. The bezel has a diameter of 12.28mm, and is 1.7mm thick. The shoulders are semi-circular in cross section. Silver finger-ring fragment. Bezel and shoulders remaining. The ring has a circular bezel with a flat course engraving of a stylised bird's head and heart in the centre of flower petals The shoulders of the finger-ring are stylised. Probably 17th century in date.
Created on: Wednesday 17th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradwell Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-9B3544
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy finger ring, D-sectioned with cast inscription within beaded borders in relief on inner face: NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR · 1856 · (the date is inverted), distorted. Diam. c.21mm. Width 5mm. 1.5mm thick.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A54722
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold posy ring. The band consists of seven hearts alternating with seven quatrefoils. The hearts each have a groove around irregularly textured centres perhaps keying for enamel although none now survives. The foils are concave with white enamel surviving in some of the upper and lower cells. Inscribed internally A token of the absent followed by a stamped maker's mark; C. Now squashed. 17th - 18th century. Similar finger rings with shaped bands, enamelled decoration and similar motifs are recorded on the PAS database as BERK-BAB9D4 and YORYM-064A27. These parallels w…
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashby with Oby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C2D929
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Inscribed gold finger ring or mourning ring, with decayed niello inlaid panels and central amethyst setting (diameter of stone 6mm). D-shaped section. The exterior face of the hoop of the ring is faceted being divided into five separate panels. Four of the panels are scroll-like, each with decoration reserved on a field of black enamel, comprising: a winged hourglass; a pick and shovel; a skull and crossbones; a coronet with four six-pointed stars. The smaller elaborately shaped panel at mid-point bears an obscure design, perhaps a flower or seed pod. The faceted inner face of th…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-49C121
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy finger ring with D-sectioned hoop and oval bezel set transversely. The setting is extremely shallow (c.0.5mm) and cannot have been occupied. The hoop is badly distorted. External diameter c.21mm. Minimum width of hoop 2mm. Width of bezel 12mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.