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: SF-06F3A2
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description of find Gold fragment, probably from a small item of jewellery, such as an ear-ring or a pendant. The piece is triangular with distinctive volutes forming turned back wings, and terminates in a small polygonal block. This originally joined with another element, now broken, as is the other end, which is broken and damaged.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F53D92
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A Roman gold ear-ring of rectangular form, seemingly complete, though distortion obscures most of the front face. The edges are lightly scalloped and the simple openwork decoration comprises a design based on small crescentic piercings. It is not possible to determine the form of the centre of the plate. The long tapered hook, also distorted, is fastened to the centre of a cruciform brace which is soldered to the back of the main plate. Discussion: The ear-ring is Allason-Jones Type 11 (Lindsay Allason-Jones Ear-rings in Roman Britain, Oxford 1989, p8). Ralph Jackson reco…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EE2DB1
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Treasure find, Roman gold ear-ring of rectangular form, distorted and lacking its hook. It comprises two plates joined at the margins. The front face is embossed with a decorative swag border with tiny circular indentations. There is likely to have been a central setting in this face but this is no longer clear due to the central torn hole through both plates marking the former point of attachment of the hook.
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Stowmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D990A5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman gold ear-ring of rectangular form, slightly dented and distorted and lacking its hook. It comprises two plates joined at the margins. The front-plate is embossed with a decorative swagged border framing a central rectangular box-setting. The setting is now empty. There is a central torn hole in the back-plate marking the former point of attachment of the hook.
Created on: Friday 3rd October 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sudbury', grid reference and parish protected.