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Description: | Silver gilt finger ring with a smooth but slightly irregular purple coloured stone. This is slightly cloudy and is probably quartz amethyst, set in an oval cup-shaped bezel. The inside of the hoop is plain. The outside of the hoop is decorated with simple "chip carving" forming lozenge shaped fields containing lozenge shaped crosses. The decoration on the band is not symmetrical, there being a flower-shaped decoration below one shoulder and opposite the setting. The ring is complete but the gilding shows signs of wear on the high points.
The dimensions of the stone are 6.22 by 5.97mm. The bezel measures 9.34 by 8.35mm. The internal diameter is 19.75mm. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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