finger-ring
- Museum number
- 1915,1206.1
- Description
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Gold finger-ring of double coiled type, with twisted ends and stamped decoration. The single gold rod is of plano-conves section, with a continuous row of plain opposed traingle, or 'hour-glass', stamping around its outer face; this tapers to plain ends,which are twisted separately around the hoop. there are two substantial nicks on the inside ring, as well as evidence for ?24 minor pecking.
- Production date
- 10thC-11thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found in the river-bed at Nutbottom, Greenfield, at the confluence of Chew Brook and Greenfield Brook, in 1914; now submerged beneath Dove Stone Reservoir.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1900 12 May-2 Sep, Liverpool, National Museums & Galleries of Merseyside, A Silver Saga
- Acquisition date
- 1915
- Acquisition notes
- found 1914
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1915,1206.1
