Record ID: NMS-244527
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete Early Saxon gold circular setting or mount with a domed cloisonné garnet setting. The object has a sheet gold back plate which exhibits a scar, with the remains of what may be a missing loop projecting from it. The back plate is framed by a beaded wire collar consisting of narrow, regular beads, some of which have been dented during deposition. Within the thick outer collar is a thinner inner collar consisting of two strands of gold wire twisted around one another, one plain wire and one beaded wire. The central circular setting has an outer strip bent inwards…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-26FEF9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The band is flat internally, with nine angled concave mouldings separated by segmented ribs externally. Each moulding is engraved with a floral spray consisting of either a pointed flower head on a stem with two pairs of leaves or a five petalled flower above a single pair of leaves, both types with a transverse line with radiating lines below at the base indicating the ground. The type and orientation of the flower heads are arranged (up and down being arbitrary) - pointed down, pointed up, five petals down, pointed up, pointed down, five petals up, pointed…
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Leigh', grid reference and parish protected.