Record ID: YORYM1267
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure report from B.M. Ager: Gold arm ring, cut through and partly straightened into a curved L-shape, but otherwise complete; length, 260 mm (total); diameter, 15 mm at centre and 6 mm at ends. It is made of two thick, round rods with beaded wires between them, twisted into a cable and tapering to the ends. The original ends (now together at one end of the cable because of the cut) are joined to a plain, polyhedral knob and are closely bound with plain wires on either side of it. The beaded wires of the cable show girth grooves round many of the 'beads', which were caused in …
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE YORK', grid reference and parish protected.