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.

Record ID: NARC-4EDB7E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold Finger Ring of roman to Modern date (AD 43-1900). The object is composed of a thin possibly lightly hammered wire, with a sub-circular section, the form is slightly distorted. Thin gold wires might form parts of Roman pendant ear rings, though a much later use as a finger ring or necklace component, or an origin as debris from craftwork is equally possible. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1900 Length: 21.59mm, Width: 14.08mm, Thickness: 1.03mm, Weight: 0.6g Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: NLM…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-400464
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2021 T851 An almost complete gold and glass finger ring of Roman date, c. AD 300-400. The band is formed of two gold wires, originally circular in plan but now bent out of shape, with an ovate bezel containing a broken purple glass setting and sub-triangular gold foliate shoulders. The bezel of the finger ring comprises an undecorated ovate backplate set between two gold wires, which join together either side of the bezel and run parallel to one another to form the band. The bezel is set with an oval purple glass setting, now broken, held in place with appr…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 30th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holtby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-2D4C88
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold finger ring of Roman date (c. AD 200-400). Description: The hoop of the ring is circular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. Its narrowest point is opposite the bezel and from here, the sides of the hoop divide into two segments which separate gradually to form triangular shoulders. Half way along the shoulders, the two halves of the hoop are connected by a circular join, creating an open-work effect. On one of the shoulders, and now missing from the other, is an applied scallop shell, soldered to the hoop by a cylindrical bar. The shell faces a tubular …
Created on: Friday 22nd October 2021
Last updated: Sunday 10th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Chart with Singleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-8B1C5E
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small cut gold sheet fragment, of roughly trapezoidal shape, 8.9mm long, 0.5mm thick and 0.44g. The fragment has no decoration or markings and is of uneven thickness, tapering to one edge suggesting it has been worked by hammering and has been cut along all four edges.
Created on: Friday 27th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hayling Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-AE0EAD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold Roman circular mount. In the centre of the mount in a raised Julio-Claudian bust, probably of Augustus. On the reverse is the concave reverse of the bust. It is likely that the gold has been rubbed over an object, possible a coin, that depicted the bust. Around the bust is a circle of raised dots. Next around this is a single raised, plain band outside of which is another ring of, this time larger, raised dots. The outer edge of the disc has suffered damage at the 2-5 o'clock and 8-9 o'clock positions.
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mortimer CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-22EC08
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold Chain of late Roman date (AD 300-410). The object comprises the lower portion of the chain and one terminal. The chain terminates in one end in an irregular break. There are four individual links with beaks resulting in the loops projecting out slightly from the main cord of the chain. The opposing end retains a dolphin or swans head terminal. The chain is of fine construction and is composed of a ‘plaited’ four sided (double) loop-in-loop construction. The lower terminal is zoomorphic and is composed of two sheets of gold, the lower plate is flat and atta…
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-4CCBC9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete Roman gold gem-set finger ring of Henig Type VIII (2007, p. 9, fig. 1) and Guiraud Type III (1989), dating from the end of the second to the late third century.  The bezel is oval and set above the hoop with a dark red (probably garnet) gem stone.  The gemstone is rounded and not engraved.  The shoulders narrow to a V shaped point before joining the main hoop and are decorated by two small pierced holes.  The hoop is complete but bent and has an indentation running along the centre of the band.  Dimensions:  D: 22.28mm (squa…
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Sampford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-A834D7
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold fragment of jewellery of suspected Roman-Early Medieval date. The fragment has a leaf-shaped gold plate onto which is soldered twisted wire and pellet decoration in the form of seven teardrops with pellets at the tip; these run in two outward-facing rows up the tapering length of the plate, with a final apical teardrop positioned at the tip and facing the opposite way. The broken end of the object retains part of a framed field which has an incised letter A, most likely the end of an inscription. Around the outside edge of the plate is a soldered border of twisted wire, which ha…
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-81C278
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete cast penannular finger ring made from a flat sheet of gold with rounded ends. The surface forms three parallel ribs running along the hoop: one along the central line and one either side. The hoop is distorted to sub-circular shape with the terminals twisting in opposite directions. Both terminals are rounded, one seemingly complete and one with a tapered terminal possibly suggesting minor loss. On both terminals the ribs reduce in appearance towards the terminal, seemingly from manufacture rather than wear. The interior of the hoop is plain and smooth. Dimens…
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-C9476C
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly complete Roman gold ear ring, dating to c. AD 200-300. The find is a plain, circular ear ring made from a thin gold wire of circular cross-section, each end is overlapped with the other and twisted round neatly in five coils to hold the shape. The ring, which is slightly distorted, shows no visible wear. Dimensions: 23.10mm in width; 17.8mm in height (i.e. c 20.5mm in diameter before distortion); 1.9g in weight Discussion: The earring is of Allason-Jones Type 3. It is closed, making it impossible to remove without breaking. It is possible that the ear ring once h…
Created on: Thursday 25th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ditteridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-BE2DD1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman gold aureus of Trajan, dating to AD 101-102 (Reece Period 5). P M TR P COS IIII P P reverse type, depicting Hercules, naked, standing front on low base, holding club downwards in right hand and lion-skin over left arm. Rome mint. RIC II Trajan 50 (aureus)
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colerne CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F06C53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold earring of Roman date, probably of Allason-Jones's type 11. It appears to consist of two layers of thin circular sheet backplate, both now crumpled but originally 14mm in diameter. In the centre of the front is a smaller circular sheet element which may once have been three-dimensional but is now crushed flat. A circular-section wire hook emerges from the reverse. It tapers as it curves out and around to form an apparently well-preserved hook in the shape of an open loop; the wire has a blunt end which is slightly recurved. Dimensions:&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F7910D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring. Oval colourless translucent flat-topped glass within a raised box-setting surrounded by a roped flange. Flat hoop of constant width, with two twisted roped wires applied to it and bordered on each edge by finely milled wires. Two globules at junction of hoop and bezel on each side. 4th century. The oval box setting is oriented longitudinally to form the bezel of the finger-ring. It is formed from a strip of gold bent to fit closely around the slightly irregular piece of glass. The 'roped flange' is a piece of twisted gold wire around the base of the box setting.…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-785887
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A complete Roman gold earring dating to circa AD 200-300. The object consists of a square or box-shaped setting with straight edges. The setting recesses contains a dark green to black squarely cut gemstone. The surface of the gemstone is abraded. The gemstone is surrounded by a flat, thin border around which a frame of oblique ridges in relief, giving the impression of twisted wire, is set. The reverse of the setting is flat. Emerging from the reverse, having been soldered to the setting, is a now bent and distorted circular-sectioned wire which tapers gently into a…
Created on: Friday 20th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-146194
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted gold filigree finger ring of late Roman date, AD 300 - 400. It has a rectangular bezel, and a detached translucent white glass or gem setting. The gem is also rectangular, with one flat face and one convex face, but with facets at the sides. It seems a little too small for the bezel, at 8.3mm long, 7.5mm wide and 2.5mm thick. 0.24g. The bezel is of hollow box constructions and has a back plate and walls made of sheet gold. The walls enclose a flange round the opening to frame the setting, also of sheet gold. On the outside of the walls, about half way up, is a rope ef…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kilvington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-FE167A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold ring with an oval bezel (10.5mm wide) with an integrally cast dextrarum iunctio motif of two clasped hands surrounded by an applied border of twisted gold wire, which has become partially detached. The shoulders are triangular, with incised V shaped decoration and scalloped edges. These narrow into the hoop, which is plano-convex, 1.1mm thick and 3.3mm wide at its narrowest point. The ring has been crushed and distorted. Circa 4th century AD. Length: 22.5mm; Width: 10.5mm; Height: 17.4mm; Weight: 6.89g.
Created on: Monday 2nd November 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-C0305E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman solidus of Constantine III (AD 407-411), dating to the period c.AD 407-408 (Reece period 22). VICTORIA AAAVGGGG reverse type depicting the emperor standing right, holding standard and Victory on globe, trampling captive to right. Mint of Lyon. As RIC X, p. 347, no. 1506. Coin has same dies as MDC Monnaies de Collection sari (1 12 2017), lot 224.
Created on: Friday 30th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9D1C12
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold Roman (AD 43-410) finger ring dating, probably dating to the first century. The ring is crushed and distorted. It has a distinctive construction using a thin sheet of gold. It has a simple D-shaped hoop widening at the shoulders to the bezel. The hoop is faceted, with a central transverse ridge and slightly angled sides, perhaps gently hammered to create sloping slides. The bezel comprises a central lozenge motif delineated by grooves with a central opening that would have originally contained the setting, perhaps a stone or intaglio, which are now lost. The se…
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scampton', grid reference and parish protected.