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ArchaeologySitefind / Finger ringHMCMS:A2015.69Cupid ring, TangleyVisit Page
This late Roman gold finger-ring was found at Tangley, north of Andover, two years ago, by Ashley Duke. It qualified as ‘treasure’ under the definition of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme oversaw its recording, valuation and publication (2014 T12).
This late Roman gold finger-ring was found at Tangley, north of Andover, two years ago, by Ashley Duke. It qualified as ‘treasure’ under the definition of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme oversaw its recording, valuation and publication (2014 T12).
This late Roman gold finger-ring was found at Tangley, north of Andover, two years ago, by Ashley Duke. It qualified as ‘treasure’ under the definition of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme oversaw its recording, valuation and publication (2014 T12).
It was acquired by the Hampshire Cultural Trust and the opportunity to display it coincided with the publication of the ring, firstly in an academic article in the journal Britannia, and secondly in a wide range of media outlets, as the beautifully cut intaglio, depicting a rather languid and impious looking Cupid, caught the imagination.
The nicolo intaglio (onyx with a blue surface and a dark heart) shows a winged, naked Cupid, leaning on a short spiral column. He holds aloft a flaming torch, which he will later use to burn Psyche in her guise as a butterfly.
Parallels for the ring are noted in the National Museum in Vienna, and closer to home, in one of the rings in the Silchester hoard. -
ArchaeologySitefinds / PotteryHMCMS:A1984.2.1Excavated Roman period (1st or 2nd century AD) ring-necked flagon from Winchester Street site, Winchester Street, Andover, Hampshire. Roman period. Possibly from Wiltshire: the pot was with the ...Visit Page
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ArchaeologyGlass / SitefindHMCMS:N1997.20.60Sitefind, Romanblue cast glass gem depicting a seated philosopher, part of the Silchester Hoard found by metal detector at Silchester, Hampshire, 1985-1987.Visit Page
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ArchaeologyStone / SitefindHMCMS:A1994.18.17Collected in 1944 by flight commander Tom Wallis, found at Yew Hill, Kings Somborne, Test Valley, Hampshire. ...Visit Page
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ArchaeologySitefind / FlintHMCMS:A2014.44Handaxe, found at the spitalfields allotments, Alton dating from around the middle stone age, around 400,000 years ago.Visit Page
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ArchaeologyDefixioHMCMS:A1982.9Sitefind, metal detector find, Roman lead defixio (lead curse tablet) dedicated to Neptune, found River Hamble, Hampshire ‘Curse tablets’ of the Greco-Roman world are associated mostly with civil and ...Visit Page