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Record ID: SF6500
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mourning ring, with a pale turquoise facetted glass setting and enamelled decoration. The hoop is circular, 22 mm wide externally, and flares from 2 mm wide opposite the setting to 3 mm wide at the shoulders. The shoulders are decorated from about halfway around the hoop, with criss-cross grooves filled with black enamel. The grooves do not cross at right angles nor are they aligned with the axis of the hoop; instead they radiate slightly but elegantly from a point rather off the hoop, which gives an almost twisting effect when seen from the front. The bezel is oval, 10…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BURY ST EDMUNDS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT4950
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt posy ring formed of a broad thin silver band engraved with a double line at top and bottom, and the inscription FEAIR GOD. The gilding is much worn and the ring is split.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT4997
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Silver object, possibly a dagger chape. The outer surface is decorated with transverse bands of chevrons, ring-and-dots and plain bands. The bands are in a repeating pattern of plain, chevrons, ring-and-dot, chevrons, plain. The object terminates in a small bulbous knob.
Created on: Friday 20th December 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-3785E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring decorated with geometric pattern on the exterior containing significant remains of white enamel; the interior with the inscription in French +PRENES EN GRE followed by a flower. Both inscription and flower retain almost all of the original black enamel. The inscription may be translated as ˜Accept this willingly". Note: The use of an amorous inscription in French continues the tradition of the late middle ages, but the use of Roman capitals together with the shape of the ring and the geometric pattern on the exterior has 16th and early 17th century parallels.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-37A7E1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold signet ring with coat of arms: per pale Argent and Or a Griffin sergeant counterchanged. The interior stamped with an unidentified maker's mark, the letter E within a triangle. Note: A detailed search was kindly made by the College of Arms, but it proved impossible to identify the coat of arms; it may possible have been an inaccurate attempt to show unauthorized arms.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-37B785
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring with carved scrolls on the shoulders, the bezel in the form of a quatrefoil cusped setting with a cabochon red stone held by four claws; there are traces of black enamel in the foliate ornament of the cusps. This is a characteristic type of the period.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-37DA54
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring with flat hoop, the bezel in the form of an oval with remains of green enamel surmounted by a fox in high relief. The interior inscribed in capitals: THE FOX IS BEST SERWD WHEN HE GOETH OF HIS ARND HIM SELFE, with dots between each word. The third word is not clearly engraved and mat be SERVED. Note: This is a puzzling inscription and may be a personal one referring to the donor of recipient. According to the OED, the word ARND has a number of derivations; one of its meanings which may be appropriate here is errand. This is altogether an unusual ring with no obvious parallels.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-381372
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny gold posy ring with a chequerboard pattern on the exterior. Traces of white enamel remain. The inscription inside, in French, reads `La Fidelite courone ma vie' (Faithfulness crowns my life). Dimensions: maximum diameter: 175mm. Note: A similar example in the British Museum has black and white enamel and this one would have been two-colour as well. It is likely to date from the 16th or early 17th century. French was often used as the language of sentiment in the late Middle Ages and beyond, so this does not mean that the ring is French rather than English.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barkston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-382E72
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring formed of a thin hoop, the exterior surface with a groove at each edge and textured or roughened to take enamel; the interior inscribed in capitals: KEPE ME IN MYND. The surface is very shiny, possibly the result of cleaning. Note: The inscription is recorded in Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy-Rings (Oxford, 1931), as from a 17th century manuscript, but with a different spelling, ‘Keep mee in minde’. It does not occur on any of the posy-rings in the British Museum, but the British Museum holds a ring of similar scale with the same groove at each edge and a …
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Church Laneham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-388046
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Enamelled gold signet ring engraved with a crest in the form of a mermaid holding a comb and mirror, surrounded by scrolls, within a beaded border. The shoulders with female figures in relief, the hoop with foliate scrolls. Traces of coloured enamels B blue, pale blue, white and translucent green B remain in the relief decoration. Dimensions and metal content: X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated a gold content of approximately 93.5 per cent. Weight: 42.9 g. The listing on the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery website can be found here. Note: T…
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fisherwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-3A4384
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring in two pieces, a fragment of hoop and the upper part with bezel in the form of a square setting with a faceted colourless stone; the setting has carved scrollwork on the sides and four claws at each corner. There is further engraved decoration on the shoulders. Note: This is a characteristic type of the period.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-3AAF34
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt ring with plain exterior, the interior inscribed in capitals: FEARE GOD ONLY, with stars between each word, the N and L on only conjoined. There is also a stamped makers mark, RG or RC in a shield. The ring is broken. Dimensions and metal content: X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 98 per cent. Weight: 5.6g.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-3B0F14
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny gold ring formed of a thin band inscribed inside in lower case: I present the absent. The ring has been enlarged at a later date a patch has been inserted just before the inscription begins. Note: This inscription is recorded in three different versions by Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy-Rings (Oxford, 1931), p. 62. Its small size suggests it was given to a young woman as a keepsake to remember an absent sweetheart. The inscription is a contracted form of I am present instead of the absent.
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-3B3AB7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring with plain exterior, inscribed inside in lower case: Noe recompence but love, and stamped with maker's mark 'WG'. Note: Such rings are difficult to date precisely from the shape or inscription alone, but in this instance we can be certain that it pre-dates 1700. Firstly, the spelling of the word 'noe' with an 'e' was common in the 17th century. Secondly, the maker's mark has been identified as that of William Gough I of Marlborough, active about 1620-70: see T A Kent, West Country Silver Spoons and their makers 1560-1750 (London, 1992), pp. 93-94. Mr Kent, an authority on …
Created on: Friday 8th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Avebury Trusloe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-B51B17
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold button with chased floral decoration empty (found 2001; on examination at the British Museum it was found to be early 19th century and thus not Treasure; returned to finder).
Created on: Thursday 14th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-B58CA8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver personal seal, early to mid 17th century, engraved with the initials R and L flanking a knot issuing from a floral spray. Found 1994 and therefore subject to the old Treasure Trove criteria and found not to qualify as Treasure; returned to finder.
Created on: Thursday 14th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Plompton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-B742B3
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
The silver object is part of a piece of jewellery and could possibly be Islamic.
Created on: Thursday 14th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6B93B2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold band inscribed inside in lower case: 'Vertue paseth riches' (ie. Virtue surpasses riches). There are traces of black enamel in the inscription and the ring itself is slightly dented. 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd January 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brokenborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-827DD0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Gold spiral finger ring There is nothing comparable in post-medieval collections, but there is a group of similar rings found in Denmark in the National Museum in Copenhagen whch have been dated in their recent catalogue to c 1700 - 1800. They seem very close as far as one can tell from the illustrations; one end is usually pointed as on this example. It does not therefore fall within the scope of the Treasure Act. See F. Lindahl, Symboler i guld og solv. Nationalmuseets Fingerringe 1000-1700, Copenhagem 2003, nos. 361-366.
Created on: Monday 29th March 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-9B1A74
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver post medieval finger ring. The ring has a broad flat silver band. The finger ring is broken and distorted. The exterior of the band have been engraved with cross-hatched triangles within an engraved line above and below. The interior of the hoop is undecorated. This ring went through the Treasure Act process as a potential treasure find, on examination at the British Museum Judy Rudoe stated that the ring shows no evidence of dating pre-1704. The finger ring was therefore disclaimed without inquest and returned to the finder.
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Firle', grid reference and parish protected.