Record ID: WMID-E88DC6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring, a hoop of square-sectioned wire which tapers towards a union formed by ends crossed over and twisted around the opposite end, forming a knot (diameter: 25mm, thickness: 2.8mm; weight: 2.31g). The hoop is somewhat distorted, and the thickness of the ring varies. Overall, the ring is slightly worn and in a good condition. A similar example from Colchester is illustrated in Crummy (1983, 47-8, ref no 1756), but this is copper-alloy and has a circular cross-section with large knot. The wire form of the ring is also close to the style of bracelets. A very similar exa…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-C7EA54
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman oval sheet-gold finger ring setting depicting Vulcan. The repousse design shows Vulcan standing holding tongs in his left hand, and a hammer in his raised right hand above an anvil. There appears to be a plain lined border around the design. 1mm of the edge is bent over at 90 degrees, presumably so it could be set into a ring. The metal is very thin, c.0.18mm. Length 12.42mm, width 9.44mm, weight 0.36g. British Museum Curator's report: Gold cameo oval ring setting, with a repoussé design of a standing figure of Vulcan. He holds a pair of tongs in his left hand by his side,…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newark', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8F44B2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger ring of 'keeled' type of Henig Type VIII which generally dates to the 3rd century AD. The plain D-section hoop widens into triangular shoulders, decorated with three flutes. On the lower inside of the band there is a small fold in the metal, but the ring is in good condition and unworn. The ring is mounted with a prominent oval bezel consisting of a dark red carnelian intaglio encased within a box setting. The intaglio portrays in profile, a standing winged figure, probably Victory, facing left. It is rendered in a crude style but some detail can be made out in the…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-914391
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold and garnet finger ring dating to the Roman period. The ring has a rectangular section hoop. The shoulders are slightly expanded and decorated with ten applied globules of gold arranged in a triangle and intended to represent a bunch of grapes. The bezel is decorated with a tear shaped garnet, set within cell created from reserve metal. The finger ring has a height of 17.24mm, an external diameter of 18.83mm and an internal diameter of 15.88mm. The internal height of the ring hoop is 11.98mm. The bezel has a length of 6.44mm, a width of 9.10mm and a height of 2.50mm. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-383530
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring consisting a thick wire spiral of four turns with pointed ends. The outside is decorated from end to end with a single punch combining two small, apex to apex triangles. The surface is quite worn in places.
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nantwich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-6AD9D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2004 T19: Disclaimed A gold finger ring with thin rectangular section hoop, somewhat distorted but complete. The hoop is soldered somewhat crudely to a rectangular bezel. The bezel is a box setting and is constructed from a flat rectangular plate with filigree wire around the edge; and an additional gold plate inside with raised edges, bent over to enclose a gem (now missing).The crude manner in which the hoop has been attached may indicate that it was a later addition, which scientific analysis to some extent supported as the gold content of the hoop and box setting …
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Sunday 3rd January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Chinnock area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9265
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring, Henig type 3, with white stone cameo. The ring is of hollow construction, complete but slightly squashed with numerous dents, several cracks and one tear in the surface. The setting is oval, 12 by 7mm, with a 1mm flattened area around it. The hoop is D-sectioned, tapering sharply to the back, with traces of facets along the shoulders. The engraved cameo, of white agate against a light blue background, is slightly obscured by dirt; it depicts a female bust in profile to the right, with the hair in a low bun - the hairstyle is comparable with portraits on coins of Marcu…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KETTLEBASTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F5CAD4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Plain gold ring of slightly distorted circular shape made from circular-sectioned wire, about 1.5mm in diameter. The ring is quite rudimentarily formed and its scarfed join is still visible. Probably intended as a finger-ring, it is also possible that it was part of a simple ear-ring or necklace. The simple form is undiagnostic, but a Roman date is conceivable.
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishopstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-879173
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring, inset with three stones. The ring has an oval bezel comprising a translucent purple glass gem in a rubbed-over box-setting. The bifurcated shoulders feature a simple stylised openwork floral design consisting of a tiny glass gem of uncertain colour in a sub-circular setting, representing the flower head, below which is a pair of leaves on a stem. This stem and leaf decoration is missing from one shoulder. The sides of the shoulders bear a simple indented (feathered) decoration. The hoop is complete and is D-shaped in section. The workmanship of the ring is ve…
Created on: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlisle City', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-03E2C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring, now distorted, with a flat-sectioned hoop with an overlapping soldered join. The hoop is decorated externally with unevenly spaced transverse hammered depressions, which are very worn in one area. There is a crack across the hoop, possibly across an old break which, in antiquity, has been mended internally with gold solder. There are no internal marks. Width of hoop 3mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Original external diameter c. 22mm. Similar to an example in Crummy (1983, 48, fig.50, no1770). Probably Roman.
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2AD0B2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring of Henig type IV. The hoop is sub-rectangular in profile and formed of three wires, two twisted and a central beaded wire. These have been flattened and joined longitudinally without the use of a backing plate. They support a cylindrical box bezel with an everted rim, decorated with four small gold globules at the join with the band. The cell is empty but some residue, possibly adhesive, remains in the internal crevices. Date: Roman, probably 4th century AD Dimensions: diameter: 16.83mm x 13.18mm; height (including bezel): 15.92mm Weight: 3.49g. In age and precious metal …
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-829546
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold object which may have functioned as a finger ring or some sort of mount. The object is now distorted but is formed of a band of gold, one third of which is rectangular and flat in section with a central longitudinal groove with straight vertical tiny grooves across this. Either end of this flat band flares into a wider decorative openwork panel, also rectangular in over-all shape but defined by beaded filigree along its borders with a continuous piece of beaded gold wire running between the borders forming a wavy line. This would have been openwork originally but is no…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clare', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D393C5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete solid-cast gold 'keeled' finger-ring with plain nicolo setting. The setting is inlaid within a moulded oval cartouche at the centre of a raised octagonal bezel. The expanded shoulders are heart shaped. On the internal surface of the hoop there are two small vaguely heart-shaped impressions below the shoulders, possibly manufacturer's marks. Discussion: The finger-ring is best categorised as a Henig type VIII - 'keeled' type, and can be compared with 2009 T636. Roman, c. 3rd century AD Dimensions: height 21.5, width 24.1, thickness 15.8, weight 15.88 grams. As the …
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Froyle ', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-D88425
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger ring with a gem setting which is oval. The gem is nicolo glass, with a dark blue substrate, chamfered sides and a flat, light-blue upper surface. It is engraved with a standing figure facing left (on the intaglio), leaning on a column. This is probably a representation of Apollo, as on a nicolo glass intaglio from Braconbury, Felixstowe, Suffolk (M. Henig A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites (3rd edition, Oxford, 2007), 95 and PL. 1, no. 25). The lower part of the setting is cracked. The band of the ring is broad at the shoulders and bezel, and…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Riccall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-BACDB6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger-ring, with openwork hoop and empty box-bezel, severely distorted, damaged and crushed, but evidently originally of good quality workmanship. The hoop, lightly tapered from shoulder to back, comprises a pair of border strips enclosing a symmetrical arrangement of openwork motifs: a central small annular ring at the back is flanked by scrolled tendrils which are followed by a pair of confronted peltas at the shoulder. Where the border strips are soldered to the side of the bezel they terminate in a crook-like scroll enclosing a pellet. The distorted box bezel, its ba…
Created on: Friday 1st February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scaftworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-264108
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete bent gold ring of Henig Type VIII with a red oval garnet setting. The bezel has a scalloped collar which has been slightly bent and distorted and decorated with crescent shaped markings down the sides. The bent hoop has a slight expansion at its base and consists of a narrow strip which widens into sub-triangular shoulders with shoulders scalloped twice to the base. The shoulders are decorated with oblique grooves and circular punches at the top of each triangular section. The device consists of a thyrsus with ribbons behind a centrally positioned male head, facing left. c…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fyfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-577F75
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring of late Roman date (fourth century AD). The finger ring has a circular hoop which has been bent out of shape. The hoop has a circular section which widens and swells to the shoulders. The bezel is a rectangular box setting, with tall sides and a rubbed over rim. The reverse of the bezel is flat with the marks of the hoop attachment visible. There are rounded knops either side of the bezel at the point at which the hoop joins it; 4 knops in total. The bezel is missing its setting, which would have been a stone or glass setting, of which no traces of the adhesive rema…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stelling Minnis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-52FC47
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Remains of a gold finger ring. Hoop in the form of a plain strip of gold, c. 0.65mm thick, 6.4mm wide at bezel tapering to 2.2mm at break. Bezel in the form of an oval box setting (12.6 x 6.3mm x 3.0mm high), which would originally have contained a stone or glass setting, but this is now missing. The ring is now broken and mangled. Dimensions: Length 28.4mm, Weight 2.73g.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Ferriby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-BA4936
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman gold finger ring with an oval gem setting. The gem is of a blue glass, possibly nicolo glass, with chamfered sides and a flat, light-blue upper surface. The gem is plain and not engraved. The gold band of the ring is wide but thin at the shoulders, and thickens and narrows at the back of the hoop. The back of the hoop has suffered damage and is distorted with deep scratches. The shoulders are decorated with two engraved swirls on either side.
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandbach', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-4415A1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold finger ring dating to the Roman period, probably the 1st or 2nd century AD. The hoop is ovoid in profile and D-shaped in section. The maximum width of the bezel is 6.87mm from which it tapers to 1.26mm at the opposite side of the hoop. The ring is 21.89 mm wide in profile and 20.11 mm high, including the stone. The ring is set with a conical stone, probably agate.
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 20th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stickford Area', grid reference and parish protected.