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Record ID: SF-7B3489
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a Roman silver finger ring dating to circa AD 100-300. The extant elements consists of the circa half of the bezel and a small portion of one shoulder and part of the hoop. The bezel is flat with a front face bearing a rectangular border made of stamped circular dots. The surviving shoulder is prominently projected, tapering inwards gently into the hoop which terminates in an ancient break.
Length: 16.5mm; Width: 13.7mm; Thickness: 2.2mm; Weight: 2.08g.
Discussion: The ring is fragmentary and therefore difficult to attribute to a classification with …
Created on: Friday 18th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bures Hamlet', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-223B48
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gold post-medieval mourning finger ring. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section. The outer surface is decorated at the bezel with an engraved skull motif, which is depicted slightly in profile. This is flanked on either side by three curved lines forming an outwards pointing triangle, each filled with cross-hatched diagonal lines and with a dot with a curved line on either side positioned at its outer end. The inner surface bears the inscription ‘A.: H. ob: 29. Jan: 97’ in an Italic script (obt an abbreviation of the latin obit or ‘died’),…
Created on: Friday 3rd September 2021
Last updated: Friday 24th March 2023
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This findspot is known as 'St Osyth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-9EEC19
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) finger ring or ear-ring. It is formed from a penannular piece of wire, which tapers to a point at either end, both of which overlap slightly. Its faces are slightly facets creating a pentagonal cross-section. The surface of the metal is corroded.
A number of similar rings have been found during excavations, e.g. Elveden (West 1998, 26, no.24.7) and Thetford (Goodall 1984, 69, fig.110, nos.17-20) and and recorded with the PAS in Suffolk (e.g. SF-A986DF, SF-1114A6, SF-07FB63, SF-450B65 and SF-DE3E03). Some examples…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Little Maplestead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-7FECDB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a late medieval to early psot-medieval gilded silver finger ring. Only around 1/3 of the original extent of the hoop now survives. This is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat inner surface and a convex outer surface with deep groove running along both edges. Between these two grooves the outer face is decorated with two incised saltire crosses with a group of five transverse grooves between them. Both faces are gilded, but this has worn away in places. The breaks remain fresh.
Dimensions: Length: 21.08mm, width: 6.47mm, thickness: 1.55mm, weight: 1.70g
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Created on: Friday 26th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Stambourne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-600D05
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy finger ring of probable medieval date. It has a D-shaped hoop which is split in the centre and bent out of shape so that the two ends overlap. There is a central groove running around the hoop. It expands at the front into an oval shaped bezel, its outer face decorated with a flower formed from a central recessed circle with six circles arranged around it. The metal survives in fair condition with a green patina.
Although a precise parallel has not been found, the form and patina of the ring suggest a medieval date.
Length: 17.46mm, width: 8.39mm, thickne…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-D2E866
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman finger ring. The bezel is oval shaped and is engraved with a standing female figure carrying something, perhaps a child. Henig type II (1974, fig.1), 1st or 2nd century date.
Length: 23.0mm, width: 21.0mm, weight; 5.62g
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th February 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Thaxted', grid reference and parish protected.
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