Record ID: LON-4DB183
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
gold, possible penannular earring (?). Twisted gold wire, tapered at each end, slightly misshapen due to damage.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower Hamlets', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-2607D0
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Two gold interlinked bands, possibly earrings, of uncertain date. Curator's report: Two thin gold interlinked bands, rectangular in cross-section, tapering towards hook and eye terminals. Possibly earrings. Discussion: Whilst it is possibly older than 300 years and could therefore qualify as Treasure under the Treasure Act (1996), it is not diagnostic enough to assign to a particular type and period Dimensions: Diameters 7.5 and 9.0mm; Weight: 0.89g. Metal content: The object is made up of 84 - 87 % gold, 10-13 % silver, and 1% copper. Kate Sumnall
Created on: Friday 15th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southwark', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-CBED34
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2007 T443 Description of Object A small, hollow, sub-rectangular sheet-gold object with two undecorated planar faces. A ribbed moulding - four ribs defined by three channels - runs around one long and two short sides and a slender tubular perforation, formed by the addition of a strip of gold sheet, occupies the fourth side. The object, which resembles a bulla type pendant, is identifiable as a component of Roman jewellery, probably a bead-like pendant from a composite ear-ring or necklace.
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape with Thorp', 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: ESS-58B950
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2008 T619: Roman earring A distorted gold rod, of diamond-shaped cross-section, evenly tapered towards both ends. Probably the originally S-shaped hoop of a Roman ear-ring. One end terminates in a simple, rather short, hook with blunt tip, probably for attachment to the ear; the fine tip of the other end was deliberately turned back on itself, probably to secure a (now missing) bead of glass or semi-precious stone. Date: 1st - 4th century AD. Dimensions: Length 39.5 mm. Maximum thickness 4.4 x 3.5 mm. Weight: 4 g. In age and precious metal content the…
Created on: Monday 27th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxwell Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-866BF5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Cast gold annular ear ring. This is roughly sub rectangular in plan with a lozenge-shaped cross-section. The ring is widest at its mid point and tapers towards a point at either terminal, both points overlap by 5mm, but are not fixed together in anyway. Discussion: There is a parallel for this form of ear-ring in Lindsay Allason-Jones: 'Ear-rings in Roman Britain', no. 35. A similar example has been recorded as treasure 2008 T619 and added on to the PAS database ESS-58B950. Length 23mm, width 23mm, thickness 3.4mm, weight 3.9g. In terms of age and as the object c…
Created on: Friday 15th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 9th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Newnton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-76A2E5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a gold Roman ear ring of Allason-Jones type 2e. The ear ring is a loop of gold wire (2.15mm thick). There is a butted joint which may be soldered, or the ring may have originally been penannular. The loop is decorated with incised transverse lines which run right round the wire. The entire loop is covered with these lines. A plainer penannular example of Allason-Jones type 1 is 2010 T287. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 31st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-FC2C71
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A distorted sub-oval gold wire ring with an integral loop at one end flanked by small coils of fine gold wire, one damaged. Probably an ear-ring. Date: probably Roman, 1st - 4th century AD. Dimensions: length 31.3 mm; width 14.6 mm; thickness of wire 1.5 mm. Weight: 2.58 g. Non-destructive surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated a gold content of 87-90% and silver content of 9-11%. In age and precious metal content the object qualifies as Treasure under the terms of the 1996 Treasure Act.
Created on: Saturday 20th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-16AE53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Roman gold lunular ear-ring. The decorative part comprises a flat crescent-shaped piece of sheet gold, decorated with applied filigree wire. Forming a border around the outer edge runs a section of rilled wire (c. 1.1mm thick), with each crescent terminal decorated with a single gold bead. The inner field is decorated with thinner rilled wire (c. 0.5mm) curled into spirals, comprising two back-to-back crescents, with ends rolled back, and two larger more complex loose spirals filling the rest of the field. Originally, the returns on the ends of the spirals were set with spherical gree…
Created on: Friday 23rd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stagsden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-ADA2E4
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold penannular ear ring of Roman date. It is a penannular hoop with a thickened centre and tapered, chopped terminals. In profile the ear ring is sub-circular, and it is circular in section. It may be a Roman ear ring of Allason-Jones type 1. There is no decoration. Date: probably Roman. Dimensions: Diameter: 22.74mm. Thickness: 4.37mm. Weighing: 9.4g. The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. Dr Rob Collins
Created on: Friday 30th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sheriff Hutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-CD46A6
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman gold earring. The earring is made of round gold wire up to 1.25mm thick that has been formed into a complete loop. It is decorated with three evenly spaced groups of grooved lines. It weighs 1.27g and has a length of 21mm. Although the object is a complete loop, it is clear from grave finds that it functioned as an earring. For example a grave discovered in Lexden Road, Colchester, contained a pair of these rings located to either side of the skull close to the ears. Presumably such earrings were inserted into the ear lobes and then had their ends secured by winding them …
Created on: Friday 29th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-7CB0A7
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Date: Probably 2nd - 3rd Century A gold Roman ear ring, complete albeit for a stone setting. The ear ring is form from a simple gold wire loop, which has a circular section. It is bent over itself and terminates with a blunt tip. The loop is soldered into the reverse of the decorative part of the ear ring. This main element is circular with a central cylinder of gold sheet. This cylinder probably once held a stone or gem. Soldered about the edge of the cylinder there is a flat circular collar. The collar has been shaped with a shallow peak and trough type design and in each troug…
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Weighton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-2D3482
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Gold earring. Identified by Lindsay Allason-Jones as a 2nd Century Roman ear ring of probable Eastern Mediterranean provenance. Richard Hobbs (Romano-British Curator at teh British Musuem) has prepared the following report: Gold ear-ring, consisting of a large hoop, circular in section which slightly swells from the terminals. The attachment terminals form a hook-and-eye arrangement. The hoop has a number of different decorative elements: a fixed polyhedral bead of green glass, and another probable bead which has now broken away; a loose rope-style cylinder of filigree wire and fo…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-51E5F5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman gold ear ring, 12mm in diameter, 10mm wide, 0.5mm thick with a weight of 0.92 grams. The earing consists of a rectangular sheet of gold which has a raised border at each side and one end. The surface is decorated with a herring bone stlye pattern which consists of three linear raised areas which is bisected with incised zig-zags. This pattern becomes squashed at the end with the raised border. In the centre of this is a small circular depression which shows through on the other side. The other end of the object has broken off leaving a slightly jagged edge. The object is in good …
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sileby', 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-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: PAS-D237D4
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A small, plain, slightly distorted circular ear-ring made from a thin gold wire of circular cross-section, its ends crossed and twisted round. Dimensions and metal content: Maximum external dimensions: 15.5 x 12.7mm; weight: 0.79g. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content of 84 per cent.
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Peckleton', 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.

Record ID: LANCUM-B8C098
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold wire ear ring probably 3rd century AD in date. The ear ring is made of round gold wire up to 1mm thick that has been formed into a complete loop. It is decorated with two knots formed from overlapping the wire and twisting the terminals creating a double wire thickness between the terminii. The ear ring has two attachments of twisted wire joined to the ring by twisting the terminals which appears to have held a further attachment (now missing), probably a pearl or a bead of emerald or glass. Discussion: Presumably such earrings were inserted into the ear lobes and then…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RIPON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-F489B0
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of gold jewellery, possibly part of an earring dating to the Roman period. The fragment comprises a flat sheet of gold which has been folded and is approximately semi-circular in plan. The fragment measures 4mm in length, 6mm in width and 0.5mm in thickness. The fragment weighs 0.1 grams. Its shape may suggest that it is part of an Allason-Jones Type 13 earring of single or double boss type, dating to the first or second century AD (Allason-Jones 1989, 10). However, it is too fragmentary to identify with any certainty.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2014
Last updated: Monday 10th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.