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Description: | A silver hawking ring, or 'vervel'. Several examples of similar type are in The British Museum, and others have been reported through the Treasure Act. All the evidence ?? including the script on the ring ?? suggest an early 17th Century date. Similar rings are illustrated in hawking treatises of 1619 and 1658 (see A.Dillon, ??Six silver vervels??, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd series, IV, pp. 355-7). Compare the 17th Century ring drawn in DRG Gaimster and Sue Margeson, ??A post-medieval silver hawking vervel??, Norfolk Archaeology, XL, 1989, pp. 326-7.
The ring has a plain D-section loop, engraved on the outside in Roman letters: Sir Edmond.Lucye.
It measures 9mm in diameter, 2.6mm high and weighs 0.67g.
Sir Edmund Lucy was a local landowner in the early 17th Century, holding the manor at Ponsborne, near Hatfield, in 1622.
Treasure case 2007 T24. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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