Record ID: PUBLIC-35C697
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Finger ring dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, made from silver or another white metal with enamelled decoration. Although now incomplete and bent, it was clearly originally very small and quite flimsy. The hoop is missing a small part at its narrowest part, where it is 2.5mm wide and nor more than 0.8mm thick; the breaks appear fairly fresh. The hoop then flares gently in width to the shoulders, which expand and flatten to form a flat shield-shaped bezel. This is decorated with a shield of arms comprising three diagonal cells part-filled with decayed enamel, with an&…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0B9EC2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete medieval gem-set silver gilt 'stirrup' finger ring. The hoop is undecorated, with a plano-convex or D-shaped cross section, and although now broken would have had an internal diameter of approximately 17mm when intact. The bezel is pointed and triangular, 4.6mm high, with a  single setting for a (now lost) oval gemstone measuring 3mm in length and 2.2mm wide. The smooth shoulders of the bezel merge into the hoop. There are no marks or inscriptions.
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-8DDE3C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver Finger Ring of Roman date (AD 43-250). Henig Type II/ Guiraud Type 2d. The object is broadly oval in plan and D-shaped in cross section at its narrowest point opposite the bezel and widens and thickens, becoming lentoid in cross-section at the bezel. The ring's band is plain and undecorated. The bezel retains an oval setting, centrally located with an engraved intaglio of orange stone or glass. The intaglio is engraved with the helmeted figure of Mars Gravidus, advancing left and carrying a transverse spear and trophy. This finger ring…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-3D5B90
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description of the find About half of a finger ring with a flat elongated oval bezel and the remains of plain loop tapering away from the bezel. The bezel is decorated with a crudely scratched motif, probably intended to be a stylized palm branch. Dimensions: internal diameter 17mm; bezel 11mm (long) by 6mm (wide); weight 1.7g. Evidence of Date Good parallels for silver finger rings of this form, with better executed incised stylized palm branch motifs, can be found in the Roman period, second to third century AD. Cf. Blackburn area, Lancashire (Herepath 2005); York (Downes 2007); …
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-77D30B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast silver Roman ring with an oval cornelian in the bezel c. 3rd century AD. The loop has prominent angles/keels, above are triangular shoulders. The ring aperture is slightly ovoid, with a ‘D’ shaped profile. The oval cornelian sits within a broadly octagonal bezel (17.8mm x 15mm). The charioteer is driving a biga (a two-horse chariot) to the left, and is more unusual, depicting Cupid rather than the more commonly found Victory variation. The representation of the charioteer is naively chip carved, characterised by the Maaskant-Kleibrink as ‘i…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-16537C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A fragment from a cast copper alloy Roman finger ring possibly of Hening Type XII/Guiraud type 2d dating to the first and second centuries AD 43-200. The hoop of the finger ring is plano-convex in cross section, almost sub-rectangular with rounded shoulders which transition into a flat bezel. The hoop is truncated by two breaks and is slightly warped. The bezel is sub-oval in plan narrowing slightly towards the shoulders. In the oval region is a raised circular feature that is 7.3mm long 6.8mm wide and 1.4mm high. The  narrow from 6.6mm to 3mm at their breaks. …
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aston Rowant CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F720E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 'iconographic' type, with clasped hands on the hoop. It is a fairly large ring, with the hoop generally of D-shaped cross-section. The gilding survives very well on both interior and exterior, with just a few areas (mainly around the edges) worn to show the underlying silver. The bezel is roughly triangular in cross-section, and is divided into two longitudinal concave fields with a central ridge. Each field is decorated with a crudely engraved human figure in three-quarter pose looking slightly towards the central ridge. They see…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-E2F5E2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver-gilt posy ring of 17th or early 18th century date. The ring is heavy D-shaped sectioned hoop with a plain outer surface. The 2.5mm thick hoop is solid silver and was originally gilded. The gilding has largely worn off, particularly on the outer surface. The band shows a transverse line likely indicating that the hoop was created by bending a strip of silver and joining the ends with silver solder. The inside of the hoop is engraved with the italic inscription Keepe faith till death. This was likely inscribed on the strip prior to bending into a hoop. The ring bears no…
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wanborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-C8281C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a late medieval silver ring. The bezel is incomplete but appears to have been flat and lozenge shaped, bearing a panel of incised decoration, possibly comprising a saltire cross on a field of cross hatched lines within a linear border. The hoop has a triangular crossed section (2.1mm thick) and meets the bezel at a stepped shoulder with a flat chevron-shaped collar decorated with a band of parallel incised dashes, arranged in line with the hoop. The inside surface of the ring is flat. There are no maker's marks.
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3C59A3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver snake's head terminal from a Roman penannular finger-ring. It is oval and plano-convex, with the decoration all on one face; the reverse is undecorated and slightly curved to fit around the finger. The design of the snake's head has probably been stamped into the silver (or into a mould for casting the silver), as there is a narrow undecorated rim along part of one edge where the die has been applied off centre. The rest of the edge is formed from a beaded border to the head. Within this border is a solid domed area with unclear lengthways ri…
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-BCB111
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2023 T661. Description:  An incomplete possible silver finger ring of Roman date, c.AD 43 - 300. Henig type II; Guiraud's type 2. The hoop of the finger ring is ovate in form and section. An ovate recessed bezel is present to the widest part of the hoop and the shoulders taper away from the bezel. The bezel is empty. Dimensions: Length: 22.4mm; Width: 11.5mm; Thickness: 3.9mm; Weight: 7.2g. Discussion: The finger ring fits into Guiraud's type 2 (Henig type II), which dates from the 1st to early 3rd centuries. These are a very common type of Roman fi…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: LIN-486D43
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T494 A fragment of a silver finger ring of Henig's Type III / Guiraud type 2d dating from the mid-1st century to late 2nd-3rd century. Less than half of the object has survived. It has an oval bezel recess for a missing intaglio and broad triangular shoulders that curve down into the (now missing) hoop, which has a flat plano-convex cross section. Tarnished silver. Discussion Guiraud (1989) dates type 2 rings to the first to early 3rd centuries AD (1989, 181) while Henig (2007, 12-13) suggests his types II and III are first or se…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greetham with Somersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B6486A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2023 T456. Description:  A complete silver ‘TOT’ type finger ring of Roman date, c.AD 100 – 300. The hoop is circular with an ovate section and expands to triangular shoulders which flank a wide square bezel. The bezel has a raised central circular panel incised with the letters ‘IOI’. The outer edges of the bezel, above and below the central panel, have a row of four integral raised pellets. The shoulders are decorated with two chevron motifs, widest at the bezel end and tapering to meet where the shoulders narrow to form the hoop …
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-7AE3FD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  An incomplete Roman cast silver finger ring of keeled type with raised button on the bezel, of Guiraud's (1989) type 2f or 3g. The hoop of the finger ring is plano-convex in cross section, almost sub-rectangular with carinated shoulders which transition into a flat bezel so that in profile it appears to be hexagonal. The lower edge of the hoop is missing to an old break. The bezel is sub-rectangular in plan narrowing slightly towards the shoulders with curved triangular cut outs in its long edges creating a central oval region flanked by projecting triangular k…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crawley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-AAFD35
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman finger ring, which has a faceted hoop, probably intended to be octagonal. The hoop widens towards one longer facet, which forms the bezel and has a rectangular sinking for a blue stone/glass inset. Date: Roman, AD 200- 300 Dimensions: Diameter (external - maximum), 18.94mm; Diameter (internal), 15.64mm; Length from top of bezel to back of hoop (external), 14.82mm; Length from top of bezel to back of hoop (internal), 10.98mm; Width of bezel, 5.63mm; Thickness of hoop, 2.52mm; Weight: 2g Discussion: Martin Henig (pers. comm 12/04/2023) has confirmed that this fing…
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ogbourne St. Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B2809F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T338 A gilt silver posy ring dating to the 17th-18th century. The ring is made from a D-shaped sectioned band. The outer face is undecorated. The inner face has an incised italic inscription, most of which is in lower case, reading 'I Live in Love *'. No hallmark. Measurements:  23.16 mm in diameter; band 3.90 mm width and 1.53 mm thick. Weight: 2.16g Discussion The practice of exchanging Posie or Posey rings, made of gold more often than silver, engraved with mottoes were popular for betrothals…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-09AD0E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver strip, probably a finger-ring, now in two pieces (broken during discovery). It is bent out of shape but appears to originally have been circular, with half of the circle surviving (c. 20mm in original diameter). The strip has a consistent width of 4.5mm to 5mm (perhaps depending on how worn the edges are) and is a low D-shape in cross-section, 1.0mm thick. There is no decoration on either the convex exterior or the flat interior. One of the ends (on the smaller fragment) is neatly cut across and finished, and although the other is more rounded and possibly wo…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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Record ID: ESS-FA3D5A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast silver gilt finger ring of post-medieval date (c. AD 1500-1600). Description: The ring is circular plan and broadly D-shaped in cross-section, with a raised, rounded central rib which flattens at the edges. The rib is decorated with zig-zaging line with central groove which creates triangular fields. These fields are decorated with rows of raised pellets. Both the internal and external surfaces of the ring retain much of their gilding. The edge of the ring has nicks in several places.  Measurements: diameter: 24.4mm wi…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E55F0A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A fragment from a cast silver Roman finger ring. About one quarter of the ring survives including part of a D-section band with a convex outer surface and flat reverse. This expands from the shoulder to an incomplete bezel that would have been oval shaped. At its centre are the remains of a recessed incomplete oval cell which is empty of the intaglio that it might have held. The finger ring is a very dark tarnished silver colour. Dimensions: The finger ring is 13.4mm long, 9.7mm wide, 3.6mm thick and weighs 1.47 grams. Discussion:  There are numerous similar …
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-9DD34E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver finger ring of probable Roman date, AD 150 - 300. Only the bezel and the shoulders survive. It has a rectangular bezel (orientated along the hoop) which is an empty setting for a missing gem or intaglio. The corners of the setting are raised and the centre is a pyramid shaped recess. The shoulders are nearly as wide as the bezel, with a small constriction at the edge of the bezel, and are decorated with longitudinal beaded lines (fluted) and a chevron on each end of the bezel, pointing towards the setting. The hoop is a flat rectangle&nbs…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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