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finger-ring
Object Type
finger-ring
Museum number
AF.474
Description
Silver finger-ring in two fragments; spiral fragments; flat band, exterior channelled and ornamented with stamped `V' shapes and dots.
Cultures/periods
Early Anglo-Saxon
Production date
5thC-6thC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Little Wilbraham
, grave 28
Materials
silver
Technique
stamped
Dimensions
Diameter:
1.80 centimetres
Curator's comments
According to the Braybrooke catalogue, 'Found with preceding, and differing only slightly in ornament; being simply scored, with tow horizontal lines along the whole length.' See comments for Braybrooke 106 ( Dalton 193 & Franks 473).
Text from Dalton 1912, Catalogue of Finger Rings, no. 194: See RC. Neville (Lord Braybrooke), 'Saxon Obsequies', pl. xiii.
Bibliographic references
Dalton 1912 / Franks Bequest Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, KCB, in which are included the other rings of the same period in the Museum.
(194)
Braybrooke 1873 / Catalogue of Rings in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke, Audley End
(no 107)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Richard Cornwallis Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke
Acquisition date
1897
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
AF.474