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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: DUR-CF07A5
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a gold, Roman earring dating to the 1st or 2nd centuries AD. The earring consists of a double boss made up of two convex faces from a single sheet of metal. There are two small, granulated pellets which sit on the waist between the two bosses. There is no form of attachment but it is likely that there would have been gold wire soldered on. This earring is an Allason-Jones type 13b which normally has three pellets on the waist. It is fairly unusual in Britain however an earring of this type has been found at Caerleon, Gwent (National Museum of Wales Acc. No. 54.389A:F5). …
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2013
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-C55D85
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
The ear ring is made of gold with a square setting, which is set within a decorated border. The setting is formed by a square cell which has a plain frame around the edge. The setting is probably dark green glass which is slightly abraded except for where it is chipped, and the surface is then shiny with conchoidal ripples. The frame around the setting on the outer face appears to be integral to the surrounding border. On the reverse this square cell forms a high-relief platform from which a length of gold wire protrudes from the centre. The platform has a burr around the base of t…
Created on: Monday 14th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-BB3FD8
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two Roman gold ear-rings, one (A) a hook ear-ring, the other (B) a hoop ear-ring. A) Gold ear-ring of disc, bar and pendant type, its hook slightly distorted, the disc dented and damaged at one side, and one of the two pendants lacking. The embossed disc and double-ridged trapezoidal crossbar are fastened to an integral plain back-plate. The disc conceals the lower part of the hook, which is fastened to its back-plate. Similarly, the fastening of the two pendant hooks at the lower part of the back-plate is concealed behind the crossbar. The surviving pendant, undoubtedly orig…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-758D95
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold Ear ring of Roman date (AD 100-300). The object is composed of a recurves wire hook which is circular in section. The wire broadens towards the attachment point in the centre of the back of the objects recessed aperture. The main portion of the object is composed of a tear drop shaped plate with a deep ovate recess at it's the centre. This would have held a gem which is now missing. Along the top of the plate are two symmetrical soldered knops from which a circular sectioned wire with recurved loop projects. Length: 23.42mm, Width: 12.61mm, Thickness: 8.27mm, Wei…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B9A004
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin gold sheet disc, now distorted, with repoussé decoration consisting of a central eye surrounded by (clockwise) a horse / winged horse or lion, phallus, crab, phallus, snake or tendril with leaf-shaped terminal, scorpion, an arrow, and a bow and arrow. There is a border around the edge of the disc consisting of an outer cable-like line and an inner beaded line, through which are two circular piercings about one third of the circumference apart.. Compare a similar but un-perforated repoussé gold disc with a winged phallus and a cantharus flanked by winged griffins from Colch…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-4B5F34
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Ralph Jackson, curator of Romano-British collections at the British Museum, writes: A gold earring probably of Roman date. The object is circular in plan and is made of plain gold wire of softened rectangular cross-section. The two ends of the hoop have been overlapped and twisted. There is slight damage to the twisted ends: otherwise the object is in good condition. An example of Allason-Jones Type 3 ear-ring (L. Allason-Jones, Ear-rings in Roman Britain, BAR British Series 201, 1989, esp. Nos. 29-30). See also Crummy, N. (1983) Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small …
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-F9B9C2
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure reference number 2014 T245: a gold Roman ear ring. The body is in the form of a rectangular cube and contains a green-coloured stone setting. The face of the setting is convex. Surrounding the setting is a thin, crimped border. The reverse is damaged, and no evidence for a hook survives.
Created on: Thursday 17th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickenby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-F9CF25
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure reference number 2014 T244: a lunate, gold Roman ear ring. The body is crescent-shaped and appears to have a ridge running across the middle of the body, giving it a forward-facing profile in section. A shallow ridge runs around the perimeter. A thin strip of gold extends from the top to form an S-shaped hook. The body and hook are now crumpled.
Created on: Thursday 17th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickenby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F06C53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold earring of Roman date, probably of Allason-Jones's type 11. It appears to consist of two layers of thin circular sheet backplate, both now crumpled but originally 14mm in diameter. In the centre of the front is a smaller circular sheet element which may once have been three-dimensional but is now crushed flat. A circular-section wire hook emerges from the reverse. It tapers as it curves out and around to form an apparently well-preserved hook in the shape of an open loop; the wire has a blunt end which is slightly recurved. Dimensions:&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.