Record ID: CORN-8EC344
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Gold mount or strip with rounded terminals which have been bent over in antiquity and would have originally been flat, but are now folded over in opposition to each other and at different angles. Inside each of these folded terminals is a punched hole that was made with a rectangular punch which has left an '][' shaped aperture, which probably held a nail rather than a rivet, in order to attach it to another material, as a mount. The distinctive and large (for the size of the strip) holes have been created by a rectangular punch that was only slightly tapered, or by hammering a rec…
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roche', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8E66D4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gem-set gold finger ring. The finger ring is broadly circular in plan though slightly distorted. The plain band is of softened rectangular cross section. The broad triangular shoulders are decorated with transverse mouldings and feathered edges. The bezel (9.85mm in length and 3.85mm wide) comprises a row of three raised sub-rectangular/ ovoid rubbed-over box-settings (2.75mm high), the central one flanked by three tiny gold spherical pellets (the fourth one now missing). The two outer settings contain green-coloured gems, but the centre setting is now empty.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clyffe Pypard', grid reference and parish protected.