Record ID: SUR-65D51F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy / posie / posey ring of 18th century date. The ring has a plain narrow hoop with D shaped cross section 1mm thick and 2.2mm wide. The interior is inscribed "Love and live Happy" in an italicised script. There is a maker's mark of I.W in a rectangular escutcheon. The internal diameter of the ring is around 20mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-BD6556
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy ring with internal inscription and external decoration dating to c.AD 1400-1500. The ring is circular in plan, although slightly flattened, and rectangular in cross-section. The hoop is of even width throughout, and the exterior is decorated with neatly engraved ornament, worn in places, consisting of six-petalled flowers between three-sprigged branches. The gold is yellow and bright, indicating high purity. The inner surface is engraved with two parallel lines running partway round, between which is a short motto inscribed in Gothic or black-letter script. There …
Created on: Friday 28th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breamore CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-057600
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy/posey/posie ring of late 17th to 18th century date. The hoop is 17.7mm in external diameter with an internal diameter around 15.8mm. The hoop has a shallow D-shaped cross section, 0.9mm thick by 2.1mm wide, with plain exterior; the interior has the inscription A token of good will. At the end of the inscription is a stamped maker's mark within a sub rectangular escutcheon (second image); this appears to be a conjoined monogram GI / GH or possibly CH with the second letter being smaller and unclear.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-7AEB77
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval cast gold inscribed finger-ring or 'posie' dating c. AD 1600-1700. Description: The hoop is circular in plan, D-shaped in cross-section and is slightly bent out of shape. The inscription, which runs around the internal circumferences, is in lower case and reads + ‘Love is a vertu’; the makers mark is a cross or quatrelobe with a central circular pellet.The external surface of the hoop is decorated in moulded relief comprising four evenly space flowers connected by a circumferential straight foliate branch. The flowers ar…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Last updated: Saturday 23rd September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Exton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-ED431D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold post Medieval posey (or posy / posie) ring, with a plain gold band of plano convex cross-section, 6.8mm wide, 1.4mm thick and with 18.8mm internal diameter. On the inside of the band is the inscription Be . trve . in . hart . till . death . depart. All lettering apart from the initial B is in lower case. There are no makers' marks. Diameter: 21.9mm; Width: 6.8mm; Weight: 8.8g.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-ED1CD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gem-set enamelled gold finger ring, of Post Medieval dating (AD 1550 to AD 1650). The box bezel is made of sheet gold and is 4.7mm high and measures 6.3mm long by 5.9mm wide. It contains a table cut clear transparent solitaire gem held in place by the infolded rim of the bezel. This gem is colourless and is likely a diamond (~ 1 carat equivalent) or possibly rock crystal (quartz), both widely used during this period (e.g Forsyth 2013: p166). Three indents with blue-green enamel infill are present on each long side of the bezel (possibly rep…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-60B74C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold mourning ring of late 18th century date. The ring comprises a simple hoop, 3.4mm wide and 1.3mm thick with an internal diameter of c. 18mm. The exterior has engraved decoration and an inscription in retained metal which reads: JOHN EDWARDS OB : 1 OCT 1776 Æ 64. There are traces of black enamel around the legend in the incised areas. The margins are beaded on both edges. The interior of the hoop is slightly convex and has two apparently identical maker's marks of JH in rectangular escutcheons.
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-938287
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval gold finger ring set with a single red cabuchon gem stone dating c.AD 1200-1400. The hoop is circular in cross-section and tapers from the shoulders in thickness and width towards the base. The hoop is penannular and terminates in two angled triangular plates which are soldered to the bezel in a lap joint. The hollow bi-conical bezel is oval in plan and hexagonal in cross section; the upper half slightly concave. In the centre of the bezel is a central setting of an oval cabuchon dark red gem, probably a ruby. The gem has a transv…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Overton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-0FA2A5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold band, scratched and worn, with the inscription: true love is the bond of peace. The inscription is recorded by Joan Evans (1931) in a late 16th century manuscript and the lettering is consistent with a 17th century date, but we know that 17th century lettering style continued well into the 18th century from the British Museum's dated sequence of mourning rings. In the absence of marks or any distinguishing decorative feature there is no firm evidence to date this pre 1704.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-436072
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An inscribed gold finger ring of medieval date. The hoop is now bent but appears to have originally had an internal diameter of 20mm or more, suitable for a man's finger or for wear over a glove. The hoop has a plano convex cross section, 4.1mm wide by 1.4mm thick with an undecorated exterior. The interior surface has a legend scratched onto it in capital letters which reads: +THEBALGVTGVTHANI (to be read as “THEBAL GUTH GUTHANI”). The second letter G appears to be a combined letter G and H.
Created on: Monday 11th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: BM-1FB091
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold stirrup-shaped finger ring with a slender hoop rising to a pointed bezel with a turquoise setting. The hoop is badly bent. Stirrup-shaped rings are so-called due to the shape of the hoop.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-905F96
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and squashed medieval (1200-1500) gold finger-ring with a pale-ish blue cabochon gemstone setting (perhaps a sapphire), missing a little over half of the hoop and probably two smaller gemstone settings. The missing part of the hoop has detached from the bezel to one side and the gemstone has a small area of recent damage. The bezel is asymmetrical and hexagonal in shape, with two pairs of short sides between a longer and shorter side to give a more general trapezoidal shape. It is sheet gold and apparently formed around the irregular shape of the smooth but uncut st…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-212BDD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy/posey/posie ring with a plano convex sectioned hoop, 2.4mm wide and 0.7mm thick and of 15.6mm internal diameter. The outside curved edge is undecorated, the flat inside is engraved "Thy vertue is thy honnor". There is a worn mark of a single lowercase closed loop letter g in a rectangular or scutiform escutcheon (second image). The style of the lettering is generally consistent with rings from the 17th and 18th century.
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-AC8381
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold posy/posey/posie ring with a D-shape cross-section hoop, 3.6mm wide and 1.1mm thick and of 19mm internal diameter. The outside curved edge is undecorated, the flat inside is engraved with "Derect our wayes Lord all our days". There is a worn date late of a gothic lower case e in an unclear escutcheon and possibly another unclear mark (2nd picture). The style of the lettering is generally consistent with rings from the 17th and 18th century.
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2022
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Record ID: BERK-D7F574
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval gold-finger ring with enamel-set bezel. The finger-ring comprises a flat-sectioned, continuous band of gold sheet that expands to support the bezel. This consists of a circular setting formed from a strip of upright gold sheet attached edge-on to the band, surrounded by a collar of beaded gold wire. The setting contains a cloisonné enamel design comprising a dark green field with opposing fleur-de-lys motifs at the cardinal points of the circle. The two beside the shoulders of the bezel are filled with blue enamel, the others with white enamel (one of which has…
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-CA835F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold gem-set ring of Medieval date with an oval cabochon stone which remains in place. The bezel is constructed from gold sheet and is hollow and rectangular, 12.5mm by 11mm with a trapezoidal cross section which expands outwards and is 5.9mm thick. The stone is pale blue, most likely a large sapphire. The internal diameter of the hoop is 19.4mm. The hoop has a D-shaped cross section 1.5mm thick and tapers from the shoulders, where it is soldered to the bezel, around to the opposite side, where is has been deliberately cut at an oblique angle.
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-14F3E5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy ring of late Medieval date. The band has a D-shaped profile and the exterior is decorated in an alternating spiral formation of plain bands of pale gold, and double beaded bands of rose gold. On the interior is an inscription in Lombardic script, +DELVI:PENSEZ.PAR.kISVI:SI+ (DE LVI PENSEZ PAR kI SVI SI, or Think of him by whom I am here). The inscription retains traces of black nielo or enamel, apart from in the letter ‘Z’. On the exterior (opposite the interior letters ‘PE’) is a small area of damage to the beaded band comprising two short incised lines, …
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd February 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-1163AE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy/posie finger ring with inscription dating to the Post Medieval period, c.AD 1650-1800. The band is plain and slightly D-shaped in cross section with an inscription on the interior of the band reading: 'We.joine.our.love.in.Christ above' followed by the initials 'AB' in block capitals. The lettering is lowercase with serifs with flowing curling tails on the 'h' and 'b'. The 'J' and 's' are long flowing, hanging below the line of the text and the letter u is used in place of a v in above. There is a vertical incised line running from edge between the beginning …
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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
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Record ID: SUSS-625F14
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy/posie finger ring with inscription dating to the Post Medieval Period c. AD1600-1800. Description: the band is plain and D-shaped in cross section with an inscription on the interior of the band reading: 'God above inc'reac'e our love'. Except for the 'G' at the beginning, the lettering is lower case with serifs and is engraved within two parallel incised guidelines. The edges of the ring are slightly damaged and knicked on one side. Measurements: diameter: 24.00mm; width of band: 5.80mm; thickness of band: 2.26mm; weight: 9.19g. Discussion. Posie …
Created on: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near North Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.