Record ID: GLO-FD586C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver finger ring fragment of Guiraud type 2b. The ring retains only about 50% of the bezel and one shoulder. The bezel would have originally been oval with a recessed oval cell in the centre that would have mounted a glass or stone but which is now missing. Flanking the stone and running along the edge of both sides is a line of stamped annulars that are confined to the bezel. The shoulder is undecorated and narrows to the hoop which is now truncated. This is an addendum to 2012T279 GLO-E86407 and represents the missing second half of the ring.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: GLO-7E1939
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver finger ring with intaglio mount. The top of the ring has a wide D-shaped cross-section with slightly flanged sides. In the centre is an oval cell that originally mount an intaglio which was held in place by a white paste. From the bezel the shoulders narrow down to the hoop, both the shoulders and hoop are undecorated and have a thick D-shape cross section. The intaglio is oval with bevelled sides and a slightly convex reverse.  The face is carved with a simplistic figure who is facing left; their right arm is held in front, perpendicular to the body and possib…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Nibley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-191761
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
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 bi-faceted bezel, each side is decorated with a central heart, that is flanked by vines formed from a line of stacked chevrons each formed from two converging stamped lines.  The shoulders are again bi-faceted, but this time the ridge is set at an angle to form the impression of a twist, each angle is decorated with a vine formed from a central recessed line that this short, angled lines (branches) on running down either side. The shoulders narrow to the hoop, which is decorated…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
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Record ID: GLO-9A5140
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy Henig Type VIII finger ring. The ring has a deep oval bezel with straight sided walls that have rustications on either side, this which would have mounted an intaglio. The shoulders are made from a dished, transverse oval panel that has an expanded and upturned point on the bottom edge.  the hoop has a triangular cross-section and narrow to the bottom edge. Unfortunately, one of the shoulders and about 70% of the hoop are now missing.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: GLO-4FCDC5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “God for me apointed thee” followed by the makers mark arranged over two lines IG/S set within a recessed heart, then the second stamp G within a recessed circle. The outside of the ring is undecorated. A posy ring with the exact same inscription has been recorded at NMGW-6495BC and dated to the 1740’s, although caution should be noted that no reference was supplied for this date. However, and example held by the British Museum AF.1248, displays the same i…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 18th August 2023
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Record ID: GLO-4ECCE0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “Love and be happy” followed by the makers mark RC set within a recessed rectangle. The outside of the ring is undecorated. A similar RC makers mark has been identified on a gold posy ring recorded at HESH-84D6C5. In this record Judy Rudoe of the British Museum comments that looking “through obvious sources such as Grimwade, and this could be one of several RC marks in a rectangle for smallworkers, but they are all 18th century, the earliest being 1720s or 3…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tortworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-3F99D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a Brancaster Type silver finger ring with a square bezel. The face of the bezel in decorated with the recessed image of a four-legged animal, possibly a lion, facing right.  The body of the beast has a broad chest which narrows to the stomach and hindquarters. The chest is covered in a series of randomly placed small triangular stamps, which represent fur or perhaps a mane, while the hindquarters are undecorated. a lint of angled striations run down the neck of the beast from the head to the middle of the body. The head is a circular stamp (although no features are visible…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D958D6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The outside of the hoop is decorated with a curving line that arches from one side of the ring to the other and surrounds the whole circumference. This line is a vile with slight branch protrusions at the apex of each of the arches. Residing within each of the arches is a variety for flower and forms ranging from examples with four to six oval petals to examples with spiked petals. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “my affection is my affliction” followed with the makers mark C.  A p…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: GLO-C54934
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt medieval finger ring with applied quatrefoil bezel.  The hoop is undecorated and D-shaped in cross-section with the bezel soldered onto the butted join.  The bezel is formed from a silver square plate that has been soldered onto the top of the hoop.  The plate has been shaped into a four petalled quatrefoil flower and decorated so each lobe looks like a leaf with a central rib and oblique incised lines for the veins. Similar rings can be seen at SWYOR-708B31 and DOR-9156AA which has been attributed to the 13th century by Beverley Nenk. Compare also SOM-F8FE…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: GLO-059D6D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold The object is a memento mori or Mourning finger ring that has a D-shape cross-section hoop. On the face of the ring is engraved a three-quarter left facing skull, that has large recessed circular eyes, a pointed nasal cavity in-between; a single row of teeth below and a rounded brain case to the right to complete the skull. The remainder of the outside of the band is undecorated. On the inside of the hoop is the inscription ’M.H obt 20 Sep, 1704 with the makers mark JC in gothic style lettering. Another mourning ring with the exact same makes mark has been recor…
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: GLO-F6AC1B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coper alloy roman finger ring fragment with a circular bezel. The face of the bezel is decorated with a large circular cell that is divided by four evenly spaced ridges that project inwards from the rim. Each ridge terminates in a point that is positioned near the centre of the bezel to form a cross shaped cell. The cell look to have been filled with a whit enamel. The shoulders have a recessed collar separating them from the bezel, then narrow to the rectangular cross section hoop, which is now truncated together with one of the shoulders.
Created on: Thursday 25th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th May 2023
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Record ID: GLO-BF381D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crushed but complete silver gilt finger ring of medieval to post medieval date. The finger ring is formed from a plain band that has a rectangular cross section, but whose loop has now been squished and flattened.  Soldered to the outer edge of the loop is the bezel. The bezel is in the form of a crowned and heart. The "heart" of this design is made up of a V shape with both arms extending and curving outwards to end in fleur-de-lis terminals.  the crown is placed above the heart and in between the arms leaving a sub-oval openwork aperture in the centre Placed a…
Created on: Friday 28th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: GLO-B2BDDA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “AS+GOD+WIL+SO+IT+SHAL+BE”. The outside of the ring is undecorated. Posie or Posey rings were a popular form of finger-ring from the 16th to 18th centuries. Oman (1974, 40-41) suggests that italic inscriptions generally replaced those of Roman capitals in the second quarter of the 17th century, until posy rings became unfashionable in the 19th century. For instance, the posy ring WAW-6A903C (2020T387) is dated to 1550-1650, which although has the different inscrip…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2023
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Record ID: GLO-8B1564
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “patience is a vertue”. At the end of the posy is a stamped makers mar SW. The outside of the ring has a series of heavily worn engraved lines that forms the triangular tip of a belt with a buckle behind. A ringer ring that bares the exact same inscription has been recorded on the PAS database at YORYM-8970C6 (2012T167). Unfortunately this example did not benefit from a makes mark, but the ring recorded at LVPL-9EBA23 (2014T533) with the posy 'If love c…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: GLO-C15CFA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval, gold gem-set finger ring dating to the 14th century. The ring has a small bezel that is square in plan and diamond-shaped in profile. The top half of the bezel is shaped into a four-sided pyramid, that has a four-sided pointed diamond embedded that the apex.  The lower half of the bezel has four tapering sides that terminate at a flat base. Flanking the sides of the lower section are thin rectangular tabs that led to the hoop with is formed from a simple undecorated circular cross-section band. Similar finger rings have been reported as Treasure including 2021 T193 …
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berkeley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-7B2D1B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy finger ring that has an oval bezel with a recessed circular cell in the centre. The cell now only retains a fracture green glass intaglio. The shoulders are undecorated and narrow to the hoop which is now truncated. This is a Guiraud type 2b
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cromhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-2922A8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly distorted gold finger-ring with external black-letter inscription, of 15th-century date. The finger-ring is complete and comprises a flat broad band that is engraved on the exterior with highly accomplished floral forms.  The decoration consists of six alternating triangular panels. Each panel displays the flower of a lily. These have a central upright stamen that is detailed with crosshatching, encompassed by the petals of the flower which open in a V-shape at the front to expose the centre of the flower. The sides curve out slightly and the rear e…
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ross-On Wye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-262206
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but distorted wound wire or 'plaited' gold finger ring of Late Saxon date c. AD 900-1100. The ring is formed of three thick lengths of circular-sectioned gold wire, which have been plaited to form the bezel and shoulders. The strands have been beaten together at their lower edge as can be seen in detail, these terminals would have originally overlapped at the base to form a hoop but the ring has subsequently been opened and straightened, with one of the gold twisted strands becoming broken in the process. Wound wire rings of copper-alloy, silver and gold form are …
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-1FE396
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy finger ring that has a flat oval bezel with a small recessed oval cell at one end, this is filled with tracs of red enamel both would have been filled with enamel. The shoulders are undecorated and narrow to the hoop, which is now truncated.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-CF5FAF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a roman copper alloy finger ring possibly of a Henig Type VIII. The ring has a deep flanged oval bezel with straight sided walls which would have mounted an intaglio. The shoulders are triangular and bordered by a deep groove on both sides, unfortunately only one shoulder remains. This shoulder gently narrow to the rectangular cross-section hoop which is truncated just below the remaining shoulder.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.