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Description: | Fragment of Viking-age gold finger ring, with flat lozengiform bezel decorated with four longitudinal rows of tiny stamped dots. Half or less than half of the bezel survives, tapering smoothly to form the narrow rectangular-sectioned hoop, the end of which is twisted before a break. Originally, the two ends would have been twisted around each other to close the hoop.Maximum surviving width 15mm. Weight 1.27g.This ring fits well into a series of similar examples in copper alloy, silver and gold. Silver examples include one with a similar-shaped bezel from HER 40302 (Seething, Norfolk; NMS-2160F3), and also PAS-D64713 (Bolton, E. Yorks) and SF9727 (Great Finborough, Suffolk) A complete gold example is known from Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas, EAA22, 1984, 71, fig.12). They are dated to the late 9th to 10th centuries AD.
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