Record ID: NMS-26FEF9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The band is flat internally, with nine angled concave mouldings separated by segmented ribs externally. Each moulding is engraved with a floral spray consisting of either a pointed flower head on a stem with two pairs of leaves or a five petalled flower above a single pair of leaves, both types with a transverse line with radiating lines below at the base indicating the ground. The type and orientation of the flower heads are arranged (up and down being arbitrary) - pointed down, pointed up, five petals down, pointed up, pointed down, five petals up, pointed…
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Leigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5551A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver, gilded finger ring. The band is faceted externally to form concave lozengiform fields with smaller triangular fields between, rising to form a point where the corners of four fields meet. The surviving triangular fields are plain, the lozengiform fields engraved with four lines forming a border around a star or sunburst formed from radiating engraved lines. Plain internally. The surviving fragment consists of one complete lozengiform field and two incomplete. Width of band 6mm. Weight 0.6g. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. For b…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-B3B940
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Integral bezel consisting of an octofoil with a central collet containing a blue glass cabochon. Each foil is concave on the upper face and alternately plain and engraved with splayed lines. The shallow D-sectioned band is broken on both sides of the bezel immediately after a transverse rib. Traces of gilding survive on the front and reverse of the bezel and band. Width of bezel 13.5mm. Height including glass 4mm. Weight 1.2g. Circa 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-78E5E4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring of the Fede type. The rectangular-sectioned band expands smoothly to form the bezel, which is crudely engraved to represent two clasped hands, with a pair of transverse lines to either side probably indicating cuffs. Now slightly squashed, cracked at the rear of the hoop, with a small part of one side of the bezel missing. Measuring 20 x 21mm. Width of bezel 5.5mm. Weight 1.58g. For examples executed in a similar style see BH-F24F68, LON-3E20A2 and HAMP-9E4BC9. Circa 1400 - 1500.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-6FA0F0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring. The rectangular-sectioned band is inscribed externally in black letter with the names of the three kings or magi, + caspar x melchiar x baltasar. The inscription starts with a cross-corsslets and each word is separated by a small x. Black letter was used to inscribe rings from the mid 14th to 16th century (Oman, 1974, 5). For a similar but fragmentary ring see NMS-EDFA64. The names of the three kings were a popular as amuletic charms in the later medieval period. Probably 14th - 15th century. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-8EADF3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold stirrup-shaped finger ring with blue sapphire or possibly glass cabochon. D-sectioned band expanding smoothly at the shoulders to form the bezel with an oval setting. Height 25mm. Width 20.5mm. Internal diameter 18mm. Weight 2.48g. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2016
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Record ID: NMS-FD9EBA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold finger ring in very good condition. The hoop is circular, the same width throughout, and D-shaped in cross-section with decoration on the convex exterior. The decoration is incised and punched, and inlaid with black enamel. It consists of four panels of two repeated designs. Design 1 is a rectangle with one forked or swallow-tailed end and one pointed end, forming a pennant shape. The point contains oblique ridges alternating with rows of beading; the rest of the shape is filled with incised plant-like motifs made from short gr…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8CA9CC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Shallow D-sectioned band with a ridge at the edge on the outer face and very worn decoration consisting of angled lines dividing the outer face into five sections, with further engraved decoration surviving only at the edges as short dashes, perhaps originally multiple stamped annulets, scales, crosshatching or similar. The butt joint has sprung apart slightly and there are traces of corrosion or solder on either side. Indentations on the inner face may be the remains of a maker's mark, now indecipherable. Only traces of gilding su…
Created on: Monday 10th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F4B2FD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring. Flat-sectioned band, now almost flat, narrowing slightly towards the breaks. The upper face is divided into three rectangular panels separated by grooves with multiple closely spaced transverse lines, broken across another groove at each end. Each panel is engraved with a different motif; a single line border with a diagonal line connecting each corner to form a cross with possible stippling, a single line border around a lozenge with two diagonal lines forming a cross with stippling in the resulting four small lozengiform panels, and a single …
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-B4E184
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The bezel is in the form of an irregular pentagonal collet retaining a pale grey chalking substance at the base, but no stone. The plain, pointed oval-sectioned band, now distorted, tapers slightly from the collet to the rear. There are no marks. Width of bezel 11.5mm x 10mm. Height 7mm. External diameter of ring (reconstructed) circa 20mm. Weight 3.2g. For similar examples see Oman (1974) pl.14, A and B, and pl.18, A, B and C. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D0B0FF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned circular band, with ten opposed concave scallops on each edge creating ten lozengiform panels each of which is engraved externally with a single black letter or star probably reading in French * e n * b o n * a n which may be translated as 'a good year'. External diameter 18mm. Width of band 5mm. Weight 1.42g. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haveringland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-193AA1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring. Bezel, in the form of an oval setting within an octagonal, faceted collet, flat on the reverse, with the stubs of the broken hoop on each long edge. The setting is empty and gilding survives over most of the surface including the reverse. Measuring 15 x 12mm (excluding stubs of band), height 5.5mm. Weight 1.8g. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E03FD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring. Rectangular bezel with median longitudinal arris dividing two concave fields, the arris continuing through the shoulders at an angle, the band narrowing towards the rear. The shoulders either side of the arris are decorated with engraved sprays of five petalled flowers and leaves, the bezel with an indistinct design, perhaps foliate, and the rear of the hoop with closely spaced angled lines imitating twisting. Gilding survives over much of the internal and external surface. The rear of the hoop is now distorted. Height 20mm. Width 22mm. Width of bezel 8mm.…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DE742B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring. Rectangular bezel with a longitudinal median arris dividing the bezel into two concave fields. The hoop, which tapers slightly from the edge of the bezel to the rear, is faceted to form six lozengiform fields with triangular fields to either side. Every field is engraved with a single line border around a design, except for the two triangular fields at the rear of the hoop which are plain. The bezel is engraved with a foliate and floral motif, the two triangular fields at either end of the bezel with radiating lines, the two lozengiform fields on each side…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CD0349
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Narrow D-sectioned band with a bezel formed from a large rectangular collet (longest edge transverse to the band) with sloping sides holding a clear glass or crystal cabochon stone. The bezel is separated from the hoop by a narrow rib (less than 1mm wide) extending beyond the band on either side. The band and collet are gilded, but the metal behind the stone is silver. The ring is complete except for a small section of one edge of the collect, and only slightly distorted. Bezel 15 x 12mm. Thickness 5.5mm. External width of hoop 24mm. Width of band …
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CC589F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring, now distorted. The front half of the band is decorated with three square bosses each with a quatrefoil reserved on a field of niello and separated from each other by concave sections with four deep longitudinal grooves, with three grooves on each shoulder converging before the flat-sectioned, narrowed rear of the band. For broadly similar rings see NMS-EFD014, WILT-EBD251 and WAW-796003. Circa 1100 - 1300. Maximum width 5mm. Original external diameter circa 20mm. Weight 2.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-922FB7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete medieval silver finger ring. Rectangular bezel with a diagonally set cross-crosslets filled with niello and a tiny tear-drop shaped blind hole in each of the central internal angles. At the edge on each side of the bezel there are two short indentations or dashes. The oval-sectioned broken hoop survives on one side only with multiple transverse cracks resulting from bending, and a longitudinal internal groove probably the result of hammering the edges. There is no visible decoration on the hoop. Bezel 6 x 6mm, 1mm thick. Weight 1.2g. For similar rings see SUSS-45C5F1, …
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-115435
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Elliptical-sectioned band expanding very slightly from the rear to the bezel which is formed from a D-shaped collet with bi-concave sides, now slightly damaged and empty. The hoop is decorated externally with a zigzag line with multiple stamped annulets filling the resulting triangular fields, separated at either end from the plain rear of the hoop by two transverse lines. The hoop is slightly distorted. Bezel 11 x 8mm. Thickness of bezel 5.5mm. Height of ring 23mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 17th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-C3D56B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Slightly more than half of the hoop survives, the rear of the hoop missing with jagged breaks at either side. The ring is divided longitudinally from one broken edge to the other by a median rib to either side of which the outer face is concave. The sides are curved with each concave field engraved with longitudinal lines and short radiating dashes, possibly intended as a stylised leaf. A change of angle defines the edge of the bezel, with the median rib and a central transverse arris dividing the bezel into four rectangular fields each…
Created on: Tuesday 26th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halvergate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C3580F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold iconographic finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, now squashed, has zigzag edges and deep transverse grooves giving the impression of two flat bands twisted around each other, which meet the elongated hexagonal bezel without forming shoulders. The bezel is engraved within a single line border around a nimbed saint wearing a v-necked, belted robe with elbow length sleeves, one hand raised in blessing, the other holding a book or box on which sits the Lamb of God looking over its shoulder at a cross emerging from its back. No seals hang from the book. The sai…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.