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Record ID: PAS-81B51C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description
Decorative gold stirrup-shaped ring. It has a small bezel for an opaque light blue cabochon stone (?light blue sapphire) or glass (measuring 2x3mm), and a gold hoop of flattened oval cross-section. The internal hoop diameter is 18.5 mm (very slightly misshapen). Hoop width 1.5 mm; bezel width 2 mm. Weight 2.168g.
Metal Content
To judge from the colour and weight, and visual comparison with other gold rings and brooches in the collections of the Department of Archaeology & Numismatics, the item is gold (over 10%).
Conclusions
The form of the decorative, stirrup-shaped …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-817076
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Published
Description
Decorative gold ring with a large circular bezel (diameter 7mm), set with a small uncut (cabochon) blue stone, probably a sapphire. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, and the underside of the bezel is chamfered. The hoop is slightly misshapen, but may have had an original internal hoop diameter of 18-20mm (external diameter 22-23mm). It has a flattened oval cross-section, and expands slightly towards the bezel. Weight 2.69g.
The finger ring from Llanharry has a form typical of a 12th or 13th century date (cf. Trea…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 23rd October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-81128C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gateshead
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold finger-ring, with a four-cusped setting containing a transparent imitation 'gemstone'. The hoop is stirrup-shaped and the shoulders are each engraved with panels of foliate decoration. The hoop is slender and slightly bent. The ring probably dates to the 14th or 15th century. Analysis at the British Museum has shown that it is made of gold, and that the 'gemstone' is probably made of glass. The ring weighs 2.7grams, and the diameter is 21mm.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-80C250
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold finger-ring, with a raised octagonal fluted bezel set with an oval turquoise. The slender hoop is D-shaped, and slightly distorted. The ring probably dates to the 14th century.
Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the ring at the British Museum indicates a gold content of approximately 83%. The stone has been identified by Raman Microscopy as turquoise. The ring weighs 2.23 grams.
The form of this ring is unusual. The closest comparable example is a ring in the British Museum with a hexagonal bezel set with an emerald, but on this ring the bezel is bevell…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-809196
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger-ring set with a garnet. The slender hoop is triangular in section creating two distinct registers which carry a complicated inscription, the meaning of which is not clear. The inscription seems to begin (and end?) with a cross. Thereafter letters are reversed and inverted in a very confusing fashion. It is punctuated with colons and divided by three evenly spaced four-petalled flowers. The top register reads:
+ I : E S (reversed): (the following letters are then inverted) FLVR: V I (flower) V I F L (reversed) V (flower ) I E: S +
The bottom register reads:
I F …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-804C91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval, stirrup-shaped finger-ring set with a sapphire. The hoop is slender and triangular in section creating two distinct registers which are decorated with simple double punches which are divided by five, evenly spaced, four-petalled flowers.
The ring is of thirteenth century date and scientific analysis at the British Museum has established the gold content to be approximately 67%.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th October 2014
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Record ID: WMID-7CE2C5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold finger ring, of probable Early Post Medieval dating (1700 AD to 1800 AD).
The finger ring is misshaped and no longer circular. It has a D shaped cross section. The exterior is plain. The edges have been bevelled. The interior bears the following inscription: A kiss for peping. A maker's mark is present, and consists of the initials GN in a square cartouche.
Due to being mishappen, the original diameter is hard to determine, but probably was around 18 mm. The hoop is 3.3 mm wide and 1.0 mm thick. It weighs 1.6 g.
The finger ring is a dark yellow colour, with an…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Market Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-7CBF16
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy unit of Carthage, c. 215-201 BC
Obv. Head of Tanit left
Rev. Horse standing right, (head left)
J. Alexandropoulos, Les monnaies de l'Afrique antique (2007), p. 386, cf. 69bis
SNG Copenhagen, pl. 15, cf. nos. 397-8
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'South Cave', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-7C3768
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman sestertius of later 1st century AD date, probably Domitian (AD 81-96) (Reece Period 4), Reverse type is illegible. Probably Mint of Rome.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Bawdsey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: GLO-7C10B2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper-alloy buckle frame, circular internally and with the bar straight externally. The outer edge has a slight point at the grooved pin rest. This is of Meols Type 3 (Griffiths et al 2007, 84-86), a very simple shape with surprisingly few well-dated examples known, but probably in use from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
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Record ID: CAM-7BBBD0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring with intaglio setting surviving of mid.19th century AD date. This finger-ring survives in excellent condition.
Disclaimed as not treasure. Further identification given by Judy Rudoe of the British Museum. "...it has the papal keys on the bottom of the hoop and probably dates to the middle decades of the 19th. The intaglio appears to show a standing bull (background) and a horse in the foreground - it is difficult to judge if the gem is of earlier date than the ring (but even if it was, it still would not be treasure)..." Claudia Stedmond, Assistant Treasure Reg…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 17th March 2022
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This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-7B5EC1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint polished axe dating from c. 3,500 - 2,200BC
The axe is fragmentary, represented by the butt (with a surviving length of 61.0mm and a weight of 57.4g) and the axe broke in antiquity. The butt is slightly damaged but would have been narrow and rounded. The sides are straight and convergent towards the break. The axe has an oval body section (with a maximum surviving width and thickness of 44.2mm and 20.4mm respectively). The flaking scars from roughing-out the axe are evident on both faces and are partially polished-out. More flaking scars are evident on one of the fa…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-7B0ADE
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age bronze Flat Axe, possibly of Type Migdale (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, p 35-44)[1], of Metalworking Assemblage III, corresponding to Needham's (1996)[2] Period 2 -3 and probably dating to c. 2,200 - 1,900BC.
The axe is incomplete, missing the butt and with peripheral damage (with a surviving length of 103.3mm and a weight of 264.2g). The break at the butt occurred in antiquity and there is the suggestion of bending towards one of the faces, prior to breaking. The axe is of rectangular section at the break (with a width of 26.4mm and a thickness of 8.3mm), which is fla…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: WMID-79E85D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Trumpet style brooch, of Roman dating (AD 75 - AD 175).
Approximately 45% of the brooch is present, with pin, foot, headplate, spring and catch plate missing. The rest of the brooch is intact.
The head of the brooch is oval in plan, and tapers into the bow. The reverse of the head is slightly concave. The bow of the brooch is D shaped in cross section. The head of the brooch tapers into the body. Halfway down the length of the bow, are two horizontal mouldings, with a recess present between each, on which some decoration maybe present. Beneath the moul…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th November 2014
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Record ID: WMID-794E69
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilded silver finger ring, of Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1500).
The finger ring fragment consists only of the bezel. The hoop is missing, presumed lost in antiquity.
The bezel consists of a crescent shape. An old break is present on either side of the crescent (edges not photographed).The front of the crescent has been decorated with a grooved border, creating an inner raised crescent. The reverse is undecorated. Traces of gilding survive on the reverse. No inscription is present.
It measures 7.6 mm in length, 10.9 mm wide and 1.2 mm thick. It weighs 0.5 g.
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Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Bidford-on-Avon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DUR-79025D
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast, copper alloy, socketed axehead dating to the Late Bronze Age, c. 1000 BC to 800 BC.
The object is sub-rectangular in plan and gently widens towards the blade which has a maximum width of 36.05 mm although there is clear damage to the edge of the blade making it very blunt. There is some bevelling on both sides of the object caused by hammering the object. When viewed in profile the object is triangular, with the objects again tapering to a point at the blade. There are clear casting seams on both profiles and on one side there is the base of the loop which has probably brok…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Record ID: GLO-78EFA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy radiate of Carausius dated to AD 287-293 (Reece 14). Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right; IMP C M A CARAVSIVS AVG / Pietas standing left, sacrificing at altar PIETAS AVG. Unattributed Mint. RIC V, pt 2, p. 539, no. 944. This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th January 2016
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Record ID: WMID-7848F8
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver die stamped cufflink set of 17th Century dating. The cufflink set (one half of a pair of cuff links) consists of two single discs or cufflink elements and a sub rectangular loop of circular sectioned wire. Both discs are circular in plan, with bevelled edges. The backs are plain and undecorated. A sub circular loop is present on the rear of each cufflink disc. The front has been die stamped with a crown with central cross pattee ornament. Two hearts are below (Lewis form 1, type A).
Similar examples can be found from Norfolk (2014 T319; NMS-1F8FB6) and Cambridgesh…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bidford-on-Avon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: GLO-77CAFD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Trajan (AD 98-117), dating to the period c.AD 103-111 (Reece 5). COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left holding rudder attached to prow and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. As RIC II no. 122.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: WMID-77A22D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gilded silver pyramid mount of Early Medieval dating (first half of the 7th Century AD).
Around 50% of the pyramid mount is present, consisting of the top (apex) and two sides (faces). The rest is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The mount is hollow and originally would have had a square base. The broken stub of a transverse bar, originally for a strap attachment, is preserved on the base.
The two surviving faces of the pyramid mount are decorated with the same chip-carved design, comprising a hanging triangle at the tip of the face, with sub-trian…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Wellesbourne', grid reference and parish protected.
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