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Description: | A finger ring made of copper-alloy with traces of gilding. The ring has a thin hoop, the bezel is integral to the hoop and as a result (where the bezel is) the hoop is flat. Either side of the bezel the hoop is at it widest to accommodate the bezel. The hoop then get thinner and then it thickens out again opposite the bezel. Apart from the flat section (the bezel) the hoop is roughly circular. The bezel depicts a standing lion (perhaps other large cat), standing on its hind legs and it has it tail curled up behind it. The cat has been framed within an engraved circle. The finger ring appears to once have been gilded. Traces of gilding still survive on the bezel and the shoulders of the ring. However much of the original surface has been lost. The interior of the hoop still retains a lot of gilding, but this too is patchy and flaky. Much of the original surface has been lost. The metal has a dark green-brown patina below the gilding. The closest parallels can be seen in Saunders and Saunders, 1991 (part 1), pp40-6, no. 17 ? 27. All of these finger rings date from the Late medieval to Early post-medieval periods, 15th ? 16th Centuries. | 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: | 1400
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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