Finger-ring with Latin inscription and male head facing left

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Finger-ring with Latin inscription and male head facing left (AN1970.1067)

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Details

Title

Finger-ring with Latin inscription and male head facing left
Associated place

Bossington (find spot)
Date

Late Anglo-Saxon Period (Britain) (AD 850 - 1066)
Material and technique

gold
Material index

gold
Object type

finger-ring
Dimensions

3 cm (height)
2.1 cm (diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by Reverend A.B. Hutchins, 1847.
Museum location

Second floor | Gallery 41 | England 400 - 1600
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1970.1067

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Further reading

Scarisbrick, Diana and Taylor, Gerald, Finger rings from Egypt to the present day (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), no.228, p.44, illus. p.44

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