Record ID: GLO-D958D6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow gold finger ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop. The outside of the hoop is decorated with a curving line that arches from one side of the ring to the other and surrounds the whole circumference. This line is a vile with slight branch protrusions at the apex of each of the arches. Residing within each of the arches is a variety for flower and forms ranging from examples with four to six oval petals to examples with spiked petals. The flat inside is engraved with the inscription reading “my affection is my affliction” followed with the makers mark C.  A p…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: GLO-1042B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Iron Age stater of the Catuvellauni, Middle Whaddon Chase, big wheel type. NT5-6, Obverse: crossed wreaths outline crescents back-to-back at centre Reverse:  Horse right, wing motif above, wheel below. VA 1487, BMC 331-35, Ev.C9. M137, S 32, ABC 2442.
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: GLO-0BFB91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stirrup-shaped finger ring. The bezel is expanded into a low flat topped triangle with faceted corners that is surmounted by a single domed blue stone that has been identified by the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum using Raman spectroscopy as corundum gemstone, likely sapphire. The stone is set within an asymmetrical hexagonal cell. Expanded quatrefoils flank the base of the bezel which then led on to the angled hoop which has a central ridge running around its circumference resulting in the band having a low triangular cross-section. Evenly spaced around t…
Created on: Friday 12th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: GLO-50652C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold roman finger ring that has a triple oval bezel consisting of a large central oval box setting that has beaded wire running around its base and large pellet soldered onto the outside edge of each corner. Flanking the central oval are two smaller oval boxes, again each surrounded by beaded wire, on the shoulder of one of the smaller ovals are soldered a trefoil of beads, scaring on the side of the other small bezel suggests a similar arrangement that has been subsequently lost. This arrangement was soldered onto an expanded flat panel of the hoop, which has subsequently become dist…
Created on: Friday 21st September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 31st October 2019
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