5th-6th century AD. A gold ring comprising a narrow flat-section hoop, ellipsoid plaque with inset garnet cabochon, intaglio bird above a group of three angular characters. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 471. 4.28 grams, 18mm overall, 14.66mm internal diameter (approximate size British G 1/2, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.06, Japan 6) (3/4"). The Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s.