Anglo-Saxon gold ring

Anglo-Saxon gold ring
Anglo-Saxon gold ring
Anglo-Saxon gold ring
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17933
Title
Anglo-Saxon gold ring
Description
An 'Ottonian' gold finger ring of the late Anglo-Saxon period. Found near Brooksby with a metal detector.

Archaeology Collections, Collections Resources Centre, Barrow-on-Soar
Held at the Collections Resources Centre, Barrow-on-Soar
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LCC ID. No.
X.A88.2003.0.0
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Notes
This gold ring is squashed and missing its setting but it is still easy to imagine its once magnificent appearance. It is unlike other Anglo-Saxon ringsof the period, so is probably European. It bears a resemblance to Ottonian metalwork so may have come from what is now Germany.

Gold finger ring with large oval bezel plate made from a hoop of circular section which has a lapped joint at the back. The large plate carries a border of beaded gold wire and at the centre has a plain circular collar for a setting (now empty, internal diameter 8mm). The outside of this collar is decorated with two bands of beaded wire, the upper one of finer calibre. Springing from the shoulders is a roughly symmetrical pattern of loose scrolls made from ribbons of flattened beaded wire on edge and ending in small granules of gold. Small curls of this wire with granules lie above and below the setting. The hoop is distorted with some damage to the applied decoration. Some granules and wire are missing.

On display at Melton Carnegie Museum
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For further information about the artefacts depicted please contact: museums@leics.gov.uk
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