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Description: | 1: An incomplete copper-alloy finger ring, only the circular bezel and a fragment of the hoop of this finger ring survive the rest is missing due to an old break. The bezel measures 13.4mm in diameter and within it is a setting of blue glass, held in place with a white cement which can be seen along one side. There is a transverse groove where the bezel joins the hoop. The survivng fragment of hoop is rectangular in shape and curvilinear. 2: A copper-alloy finger ring distorted and missing its setting. The hoop is now oval in shape measuring 24.9mm by 17.8mm in size externally. It is rectangular with a width of 3.9mm. The bezel is now also squashed and oval in shape, 13.7mm in length and 5.3mm in width. It has four tapering rectangular projections which would have originally have held the now missing setting place. These two finger rings could be medieval or post medieval in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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