File:401 Early Medieval finger ring (FindID 85235).jpg

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401 Early Medieval finger ring.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2005-01-13 15:27:35
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401 Early Medieval finger ring.jpg
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English: Finger ring 
Early Medieval 850-1066 

External Diameter 22mm, internal diameter 17mm, thickness 2.5mm 



The hoop is made from six pieces of copper alloy wire, the wire is flat (approximately 0.8mm by <0.4mm) suggesting that it was by hammered rather than drawn into shape.  The six strands have been platted together into a rather complicated but slightly loose plat, this plat has the result of giving the hoop a triangular cross section.  The ends are broken but enough remains to say that they are not platted but simply twisted into shape.  There is a strand of wire twisted around one end, possibly indicating that the ends were twisted around each other but are now incomplete. 



Brown colour with frequent patches of light green corrosion, unfortunately the original patina has corroded away.
A similar example but made of gold was found near Waterford, Ireland and was dated to the 11th century (Tait, 1976, 264). There are other slightly similar examples found at York, which are made from only two strands of twisted wire, which have been dated to the early 9th to the 11th century (Mainman and Rogers, 2000, 2584-2586). These artefacts are thought to be Anglo-Scandinavian in origin.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date between 850 and 1066
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FindID: 85235
Old ref: GLO-CE90F6
Filename: Viking finger ring.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/47899
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/47899/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/85235
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Object location51° 53′ 02.4″ N, 2° 14′ 20.9″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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