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Record ID: ESS-5A1398
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A small rectangular fragment of a cut gold bar with a dating range from Roman to Early-Medieval (c. AD100-AD700). The bar is rectangular in plan with one end slightly tapering. The non-tapering end appears to be roughly cut. There are scratch marks and abrasions on the surface.
Dimensions: L: 11.33mm, W: 3.74mm, T: 2.72, Weight: 1.57g.
Discussion: Small rectangular bars cut for bullion ingots are known from the 2nd century and 6th-7th centuries. Examples cited by the British Museum curators who advised on the item (Richard …
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Farnham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-B6A9F2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T772.
Description:
A complete, though distorted, gold filigree finger ring with green gem setting of Roman date, c.AD 300 – 400.
The bezel is rectangular and appears to be formed of three separate pieces – a backplate, outer border strip, and upper strip - soldered together to house the gem. The gem itself is a bright green colour.
The hoop is formed of two strips of beaded filigree-style wire. The wire is soldered together for the most part though splits into two forming two inwardly curled spiral shoulders which join to either side of the b…
Created on: Tuesday 16th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Carthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PAS-00381E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, gold finger ring dated to the 1st century AD. Rectangular-sectioned, slender ovoid hoop now slightly distorted. Faceted shoulders with much of lower hoop missing. Broad, flat rectangular bezel with simply incised stylised palm-branch motif with single saltire formed from the lower fronds on either side of median line. The palm-branch symbol was a ubiquitous symbol of victory believed to offer protection against malign forces and help a deceased` wearer reach the afterlife (Jackson 2009).
Dimensions: Height: 13mm; External Diam.: 16.2mm; Internal diam.: 15mm: Bezel dims.…
Created on: Thursday 14th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: WILT-54BBAA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman gold finger ring dating to c. AD 1-200. The find is much bent and distorted, with a circular hoop of circular cross-section and what appear to be a pair of opposed possible snake heads forming the bezel.
max. length of distorted hoop 25.0mm
thickness wire hoop (circular sectioned) 1.3mm
max setting length 8.5mm (right angles to hoop)
max setting width 6.8mm
depth setting 2.6mm
weight 1.95g
Discussion: snake rings are common finds from the early Roman period. This ring appears to broadly conform with the type and would be classified as Johns t…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: BM-BDCE01
Object type: AMULET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A folded, crushed and crumpled fragment of very thin gold sheet or foil. It is difficult to identify definite original edges, but it appears to be a comparatively narrow incomplete strip. On the largest surviving visible, relatively un-crumpled, roughly rectangular part of the sheet there appear to be three or four lines of lettering, c. 1mm in height, and possibly in Latin.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'near Torksey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-BB3FD8
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two Roman gold ear-rings, one (A) a hook ear-ring, the other (B) a hoop ear-ring.
A) Gold ear-ring of disc, bar and pendant type, its hook slightly distorted, the disc dented and damaged at one side, and one of the two pendants lacking. The embossed disc and double-ridged trapezoidal crossbar are fastened to an integral plain back-plate. The disc conceals the lower part of the hook, which is fastened to its back-plate. Similarly, the fastening of the two pendant hooks at the lower part of the back-plate is concealed behind the crossbar. The surviving pendant, undoubtedly orig…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-B96C16
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring, now distorted to 27 x (max) 12mm. Flat band, less than 1mm thick comprising six slightly irregular lozenges, each 6mm wide at maximum, narrowing to 2.5mm at the constriction between each lozenge. It is impossible to tell whether the ring was originally spherical or hexagonal. On the outside at each constriction is a slight pyramid shaped rise. The internal surface is rough or unfinished. Weighing 4.20g.
Similar examples, although all octagonal and none made of gold were dated to the 3rd or 4th century in Waugh and Goodburn (in S. Frere) 1972, p119, no.27; Crummy, 198…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: BM-23B1B2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
14 droplets and fragments of gold and silver
This interesting collection of material includes 9 molten droplets, 2 fragments that have been cut from ingots and 3 fragments of twisted wire. The objects in the collection are made from both gold (of different colours), silver and in one case lead with tin. One molten droplet clearly contains a partially melted piece of gold wire fused within it. Initially it was considered that these objects might have come from the manufacture of Iron Age gold and silver objects. Analysis of the metal content of the droplets and other pieces, …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-90F486
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with bezel set with a dark red intaglio gemstone. The gemstone is complete, and although the gold components are now broken and crushed, they are also largely complete.
The hoop is made from three strands of beaded wire arranged to form a triangular cross-section, with two strands side by side forming the inner surface and the third strand added in the centre. The third strand, standing proud on the outer surface, is now very worn.
At the shoulders, the three strands flatten out and spread, with the central strand butting up…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: BM-0443D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman solidus of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating to the period c.AD 347-348 (Reece period 18). VICTORIAE DD NN AVGG reverse type depicting Two Victories standing facing one another holding a wreath inscribed VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX. Mint of Trier. RIC VIII, p. 147, no. 132. This type is not recorded in Bland and Loriot (2010) amongst the 19 British finds of solidi noted by them for Constantius II.
Created on: Friday 8th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th April 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Stiffkey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DEV-7CE6B3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring composed of 2 strips of gold joined together to form a single strip – the seam is visible under magnification. The single strip was then twisted to form a loop of fairly tight coils and the terminals then soldered neatly together.
Discussion: although not particularly common, finger rings of this type are known from the Roman period and parallel similar slight twists of gold made into ear-rings. An almost identical finger ring comes from Tongeren, Belgium (see Sas & Thoen 2002, p. 168, cat. 72).
Date: probably Roman, 1st to 2nd century AD
Dimensions: Ext. …
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Modbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUSS-17276F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold Roman finger ring with phallus dating c. AD 43 - 200.
The thick, sub-oval hoop is small and D-shaped in cross-section at the plain shoulders which taper to a more oval section at the base of the hoop. The simple, flat oval bezel is decorated with a schematic phallus (5.02mm long), which has been soldered in place. It is formed of two granulated pellets and a separate circular-sectioned rod with one flat end, (adjacent to the pellets/testes), and one rounded at the tip. The object was found on the foreshore and the gold surface is pit…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2023
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This findspot is known as 'near Climping', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: KENT-ECA0D1
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of two gold Roman solidi of Arcadius, dating to the period AD 394-402 (Reece Period 21). VICTORI-A AVGGG reverse type depicting Emperor, standing right, holding standard and Victory on globe, and trampling on captive. Mint of Mediolanum (Milan).
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A gold Roman solidus of Arcadius, dating to the period AD 394-402 (Reece Period 21). VICTORI-A AVGGG reverse type depicting Emperor, standing right, holding standard and Victory on globe, and trampling on captive. Mint of Mediolanum (Milan).
Obverse description: Bust of Arcadius, pearl-diademed, draped and c…
Created on: Monday 24th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Graveney with Goodnestone CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-A9FC5D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T54
An incomplete gold and glass finger ring of Roman date, c.AD 300-400.
The bezel of the ring consists of a thin oval shaped sheet of gold, which connects to the underside of the band. Set onto the sheet is an oval setting of blue-green glass, the surface of which has broken away, within an oval-shaped gold collar with rounded edges. Around the outer edge of the setting is an oval of twisted gold wire. The underside of the gold sheet, on the inner surface of the ring, is undecorated and has a few dents.
The band is fragmentary and consists of …
Created on: Friday 21st January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-538775
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Part of a Roman gold earring with relief decoration. It is circular in shape and made from two thicknesses of sheet cut to shape, with a D-shaped projection at the bottom which has been pierced to form a suspension loop. The decoration is in relief on both faces, and there is a rim around the perforation on both faces, making it difficult to know which face is the front.
Part of what would have been the upper edge has been torn away and the whole pendant is crumpled. There was surely another hole in this missing portion of the disc, to a…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
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Record ID: CORN-C611F4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring with intaglio dating to the Roman period, c. 1st century - early 2nd century AD.
Description:
The hoop is sub-circular in form and broadly d-shaped in section and corresponds with Henig’s type II (Henig 2007: 9, fig 1 and 12). It is 24.48mm wide externally and measures 21.90mm from the top of the bezel to the back of the hoop. The bezel is 7.15mm wide and the hoop narrows from 6.12mm wide at its thickest point to 3.49mm. The hoop is thickest at the shoulders and measures 3.94mm thinning to 3.07mm at the thinnest part of the shank. The hoop also has some abras…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Cornwall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1EF523
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman sheet gold leaf ornament, dating to c. AD 300-400. The object comprises a single thin sheet of gold cut into the form of a leaf with a midrib and the remains of six pairs of radiating veins. The veins are also incised though on alternating sides with the first pair being on the same side as the rib, the second pair on the opposite side, and so on. The gold sheet has been torn at the base, probably due to an old break. The gold sheet has been folded back on itself from the base on one side of the reverse.
Dimensions: Length: 12.2mm, width: 11.1mm; thick…
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: PUBLIC-091945
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman solidus of Valentinian II (AD 375-392), dating to the period c.388-392 (Reece period 21).
Obverse: D N VALENTINI-ANVS P F AVG, Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: VICTOR-IA AVGG, Two emperors, nimbate, seated facing, together holding globe. Behind and between them the upper portion of a Victory with outspread wings; between them below, a palm-branch
Mint of Trier: T R//COM
Hoxne no. 24; RIC IX, p. 30, no. 90(a)
Created on: Monday 20th December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 11th January 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-071CAD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Roman gold finger ring, dating to AD 300 - 450. The ring is almost complete, a stone or glass setting is missing from the bezel, the remainder of the ring is complete. The object is formed of a single sheet, the bezel is flat and pointed oval, terminating in a length of twisted wire. On each side the wire is looped twice to form the hoop, this also borders the bezel. The wire is soldered together to secure it. The bezel is decorated in the centre with a separately attached circular gold plate which is rectangular in section this&nbs…
Created on: Monday 20th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Skeffington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-B0D14D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A gold aureus of Claudius (AD 41 - 54) dating to AD 41 - 42 (Reece Period 2). IMPER RECEPT on battlemented wall enclosing praetorian camp; inside, soldier, holding spear, right; in front, aquila; behind, pediment with flanking walls on the reverse
Reference: RIC Volume I, p. 22 / Claudius 7; BMC I, p. 165, no. 5
Date: Roman
Diameter: 18.81 mm
Weight: 7.71 g
Die axis: 12
One other specimen of this coin has been recorded from Britain, found in Staffordshire (Bland and Loriot, Roman and Early Byzantine Coins found in Britain and Ireland, 2010, p. 240, no. 522)
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Portbury', grid reference and parish protected.
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