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Description: | Treasure case number: 2005 T314
This small silver-gilt finger ring with thin hoop is inscribed inside, in lower case script, ??Be not idle??.
The hoop is split along the joint. The inscription is not recorded in Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford 1931, nor does it occur on any of the posy rings in the British Museum, so it is difficult to know when it first came into use. In the absence of any maker??s mark or diagnostic decoration on the exterior, there is no evidence to date this pre 1705. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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