Record ID: NMS-838A17
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British finger-ring, part of hoop missing. The hoop, at its narrowest (2mm x <1mm), expands and rises to an oval (13mm x 8mm) bezel, which an angular S-shaped divider splits into two equal sized cells filled with glass, one translucent blue or turquoise, the other opaque and decayed, perhaps red or green. Internal diameter 20mm. 2nd – 3rd century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2004
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carleton Rode', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8FC3E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete finger ring.of Henig Type II. 'D' sectioned, expanded and flattened for bezel Set with oval black glass with chamfered sides, impressed with (now undecipherable, possible bust facing left) design, cracked and chipped. Parallel transverse engraved lines either side of setting and further engraved wavy lines around setting. Internal diameter at least 19mm, width of bezel 13mm, glass setting 9 x 11mm. 1st - 2nd Century AD (Johns, 1996, 42 - 3).
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2FF8A2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring. The hoop has a D-shaped cross-section, and is inscribed on the flat internal face A vertuous wife preserveth life. The two 'v's are written as 'u's and the letters 'f' and 's' are elongated. There is a possible maker's mark in the form of a very worn stamped 'H' between the beginning and end of the inscription. External diameter 21mm, internal diameter 17.5mm, width of band 4.5mm. Weighing 3.8g. Inscriptions declaring that a virtuous wife preserved or comforted life, or banished strife, are frequently found on marriage or posy rings (Evans in R.E.S. 1933, 336) and…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CEA310
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver gilt finger ring. The ring is made with a narrow band supposrting a square, lightly curved bezel that is decorated with Style 1 ornament within a simple border. The ornament is cryptic and composed of a 'helmeted' hip and two highly stylised legs associated with an unintelligible body. This runs obliquely across the field in the form of a double band that is broken by a single strand placed at right-angles across it. There also is a short, separate fragment of the loop.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF7725
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver finger ring. Most of D-sectioned (3 x 1mm), parallel-sided hoop is missing. The circular bezel (diameter 6.5mm) is cast integrally with, but is set on the outer surface of, the hoop. Its surface is flat and undecorated apart from a number of randomly distributed pecked impressions. On both sides of the bezel the hoop is decorated with three moulded grooves (3mm in length). Internal diameter c. 20mm, weighing 1.3g. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsquently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E14DE3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval finger-ring set with a sapphire. It has suffered considerable damage, the hoop now distended. The form is a decorated stirrup shape, with two four-petaled flowers forming the shoulders and two others symmetrically decorating the hoop. The damage to the ring has removed much of the inscription, which would have covered the external face of the hoop. The traces of some letters can be discerned. They read as follows: ......V... R(?)DEFIN The "N" is reversed. The original meaning of the inscription cannot be established.
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2160F3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete but squashed silver sheet finger-ring. The hoop tapers to pointed ends which are wound around each other, and expands to a flat lozengiform bezel. This is decorated with stamped impressions of two designs, a reversed S distributed along the edges and a circle with raised diametric line punched in pairs and short alignments of four. Stamped finger-rings, in gold, silver and copper alloy, are characteristic of the late 9th and 10th centuries (Treasure Annual Report 2001, p. 34, no.45, from Bolton, E. Yorkshire (PAS-D64713); E Anglian Archaeol. 22, 68, fig. 110, nos.12 and …
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Seething', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21A737
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver finger ring. D-sectioned hoop expanding slightly to the shoulder with two cast indentations creating slightly hunched shoulder. A fragment of the round or oval bezel inset for a (missing) stone survives. Bezel 10mm wide.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-25B0D0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver Roman finger ring, bezel missing, broken against transverse knurled rib on shoulder, flattened D-sectioned band tapers to break at centre of base. This object was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36DAE7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Serjeants-at-Law finger ring. Rectangular sectioned, now squashed, engraved with a cross paté followed by . These rings were distributed by people joining the Order of Serjeants-at-Law. Rings distributed at the same call all had the same motto whether an individual or several people were joining the order. The motto 'LEX VITA REGVM' was used on rings of the general call of April 1567 when seven people became Serjeants-at-Law. However, the list of mottos and the years in which they were used is incomplete and it is possible that this motto was used more than once (G. Holborn, p…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Norwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A3473
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring. Thick gauge sheet metal hoop engraved with stylised floral design on outer face. Bezel comprises a small cast four petalled flower. Date: Post-medieval; Early 16th century Dimensions: External diameter 21mm, thickness of band 1mm, width of band 3mm, bezel 8 x 9mm.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A5B84
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver Roman finger ring, broken across flat possibly oval bezel, engraved double chevron on damaged shoulder, small part of broken D-sectioned band with twin engraved lines. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwellthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A8E05
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger-ring partly encrusted in ferrous concretion, with flat apparently undecorated square bezel. The surface of the metal is very pitted where exposed on the bezel, but quite smooth near the narrowest part of the hoop. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A995A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Medieval to Post-medieval silver finger ring. Circumstance of discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk. Description Silver finger-ring consisting of simple undecorated hoop with soldered butt joint. Slight hammer marks are visible over all the outer surface. Possibly late medieval or post-medieval, although there are no diagnostic features. Although this ring may be as early as late-medieval or post-medieval in date, the absence of any diagnostic features prevents that…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C378D2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Incomplete 13th Century silver finger ring. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector. Description The oval bezel has a rebate at the shoulders, with a missing stone or glass setting. There is a fragmentary Anglo-Norman inscription around the broken flat-sectioned band (back part missing): + EOAIM[.........]ALMENT (I Love ?..., the incomplete final word is likely to be an adverb although alment alone means step or walk). The letters M and E are ligatured. Conclusion The age and precious metal content of …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA1837
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining fragments comprising one quarter of a silver finger-ring with a flat-sectioned hoop. The breaks are not recent. An inscription in French on the outer face beginning with a foliar sprig reads: ICI[················]N (Here.........). 15th century. External diameter 21mm. Width 5.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 1.18g.
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2B9B83
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring. Shallow 'D' sectioned band expanding smoothly to rectangular bezel consisting of a central lozengiform panel engraved AI surrounded by four triangular facets each engraved with a triangle filled with horizontal lines. The shoulders are engraved with lozengiform fans. 18th century The style of the lettering and the shape of the bezel are more consistent with a dating to 18th century. In the absence of any marks or other distinguishing features, this ring is not classed as Treasure. External diameter 20mm, internal diameter 18mm. Weighing 2.12g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2C9E06
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
17th Century gold posy ring. Band consisting externally of ten circular bosses with corded borders. Between each boss on both sides of the band are smaller round knops. The flat internal surface is inscribed 'God gives in crease to Loue and peace'. The 's' of crease is very elongated and almost in the form of an f missing the cross bar. The tail of the letter 'p' extends backwards to underline the last two letters of 'and'. See Oman (1974, plate 58 c) for a very similar example with a different inscription. The style of the lettering is consistent for the 17th century. The British Mus…
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-411415
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Enamelled gold finger-ring in the form of a belt and buckle inscribed on the inner face TOVT + PAR + AMOVR + ("all through love") The slightly distorted hoop, i.e. the belt, is formed from two strips and is decorated with running vine scroll, except beyond the buckle where four pin holes are represented by double concentric rings separated by transverse lines. The buckle is shown as double-looped with pointed outside edges and large lobes at both ends of the bar. The belt, having passed through the buckle, is folded over and tucked under itself. The rounded end is decorated with a mot…
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4152E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Medieval finger ring. Triangular sectioned band (point inwards, convex outer edge) becoming lozengiform at shoulders, triangular collet now empty, with engraved line around outer edge. For similar examples see Oman, 1993, plate XI, 255 and 256. Date: 13th century. Dimensions: Internal diameter 19mm, external diameter 22mm, bezel 6 x 5mm, height 5mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raveningham', grid reference and parish protected.