Find Spot record 0096100000 - RIDEINGS COPPICE, DUTCHLANDS FARM

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
TORC-LIKE ARMILLA. A WREATH OF 4 THREADS, COMPOSED OF 2 ROUNDED BARS OF CONSIDERABLE THICKNESS WITH 2 OTHER WIRES WOUND SPIRALLY BETWEEN THEM. WHOLE SKILLFULLY WREATHED TOGETHER & WELDED INTO 1 PIECE. PERHAPS SAXON (B1).
ARMILLA OF PURE GOLD. NOT OF ROMAN CHARACTER, MORE CELTIC. FOUND MAY 24 1848 AT RIDEINGS (FORMERLY RIDDINGS WOOD) ON DUTCHLANDS FARM (B2).
GROUND WHERE ARMILLA FOUND HAD BEEN WOODLAND IMMEMORIALLY TILL WINTER OF 1845 WHEN IT WAS GRUBBED UP. PRESENTED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY MR FOX (B3).
ESTATE MAP OF JULY 1909 SHOWS FIELD NAMES OF 'LEE MANOR ESTATE'. AT NGR IS A FIELD CALLED 'REDDINGS'. THIS FIELD ACCORDS WELL WITH TOPOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF PLOUGHED-UP WOOD CALLED 'RIDEINGS' IN SOURCES 1 & 2. 1960 OS MAP SHOWS THE FIELD TO BE AT THE 'BLUNT' END OF A LONG THIN STRIP OF WOOD - IE IT IS LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN WOODED IN THIS FIELD (B4).
ILLUSTRATION (B5).
ARMLET DATED AS SAXON - POST AD 675 (B6).
PHOTO (B7).
A similar twisted arm-ring is depicted in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript of the mid eleventh century [British Library, Cotton MS. Tiberius C VI, fol.10v] (B8).
Gold arm-ring; Viking, 10th century AD; Found at Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England; Unusual arm-ring of unrivalled prestige. Arm-rings allowed both men and women to keep their wealth safely about their person while clearly displaying their status. They were traditionally presented as bonding gifts between a lord and his followers. This arm-ring is made in a way typical of the Scandinavian Vikings, twisting together a thick rod and a thin wire of beaded gold. The ring is not complete but has a gap which would allow it to be sprung onto the upper arm or wrist. It is uncommon for gold or silver Viking jewellery to survive except as part of coin hoards, where fine gold and silver pieces were often cut up for redistribution by weight. Less valuable bronze pieces are more common in graves. The gold for this arm-ring could have come from melted coin or precious items looted from affluent sites, such as the trading centre of Southampton, raided by Viking forces in AD 980. Gold and silver were also paid as tribute or ransom money, for example in 914 when King Edward paid over forty pounds weight of coin to ransom a Mercian bishop. Diameter: 8.7 cm. Object reg. no: PY 1849, 0210.1 (B9).
Note from from BAS minute book, gives some detail of the artefact and find location (B10).