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Description: | A silver finger-ring of the Early Medieval period, dating to the 9th-10th centuries.The finger ring has been made from a sheet of silver, cut in an elongated pointed-oval shape, and decorated with punched annulet (circle) decoration, ostensibly in two rows but not neatly or evenly executed. The bezel is the widest part, tapering through the shoulders until it is a wire at each terminal, which has been twisted in a simple hook fashion around its opposite terminal. The ring is intact and complete, but now bent and flattened.Stamped finger-rings with knotted ends, in gold, silver and copper alloy, are characteristic of the Scandinavian world in the late 9th and 10th centuries (TAR 2002, no. 52; TAR 2003, no. 45; Rogerson and Dallas (1984), 68, fig. 110, nos.12 and 13; Graham-Campbell (1980), 61, no.219; Rogerson 1995, 56, fig.38, nos.23 - 5).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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