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Description: | Mediaeval copper-alloy finger-ring 20.5mm in lateral diameter and 23.2mm from top of setting to narrowest point of hoop. At the narrowest point opposite the setting the hoop is 2.3mm broad, and is domed in section, 1mm thick, expanding smoothly to 3mm breadth at either side before swelling to 8mm breadth and 4mm depth at the centre of the bezel. The bezel is similarly domed in section and is recessed for three settings of clear cut glass, which are inset into the metal. The central setting is 5mm in diameter, and rises 1.5mm above the surface of the metal bezel at its apex. It has eight equal facets on the upper surface, and appears to have a similar regular cutting beneath where it is set into the solid bezel, to create refractive light within the glass. The apex, which may have been pointed, is abraded roughly. At either side of this gem, centred 6.2mm from its centre, and their edges 3.2mm distant from its edge, are two smaller similar octagonal-cut clear glass gems 3mm in diameter. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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