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Description: | A fragment of a medieval silver finger-ring. The surviving part of the bezel consists of a rectangular field decorated with a nielloed cross-pattern. Part of the thin, tapering hoop survives, and is decorated at the shoulder with the head of a dragon or animal, with traces of niello in the eyes. One edge of the hoop between the bezel and the dragon is engraved with ridges. The ring has a crack at the side of the bezel. The ring dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
The ring is comparable to one from the Lark Hill hoard, found near Worcester in 1854, and now in the British Musem. The hoard is dated to 1173-4. See English Romanesque Art 1066-1200 (Arts Council, London, 1984), cat 320e. | 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 | Temporal: | 1100
1250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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