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Description: | A fragment from a piece of late medieval or early post-medieval jewellery. It consists of a decorative mount soldered on to a flat band. The remains of the band are engraved on the outer surface with a cross set into a square. The mount has clusters of spheres at four equidistant points and in the centre has a high collet set with glass. The purpose of this object is unclear. Superficially it resembles a finger-ring. However, the scale, weight and decoration make this unlikely. The collet resembles those used to decorate brooches, and the fragment may be part of a brooch bent out of shape. It might equally have formed one of a series of mounts decorating a box or a book cover. The fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Dimensions: length 28mm, 26mm. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996 (J P Robinson, Curator of Medieval Collections, 17th July 2007). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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