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Description: | A cast copper alloy signet or 'merchant's' ring (diameter of hoop: 24mm; length of bezel: 14.9mm; width/ thickness of bezel: 9.9mm; weight: 6.22g). There are unrecognisable designs indented in the bezel, including what appears to be two lines either side of a swirled design. The ring is in a bad and corroded condition, possibly due to cleaning and coating the artefact with a specific substance. Signet rings were used for impressing wax seals for attachment to documents and letters. These rings with merchants' marks on the bezel were used by merchants and traders particularly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the owners of such marks being hard to identify. | 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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