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Description: | A gold posy ring of post-medieval date. Large heavy gold ring of D-shaped section, plain exterior, inscribed inside in lower case script: God did decree our unitie. A significant amount of black enamel survives in the inscription.
Note: This inscription is not recorded by Joan Evans (English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford 1931), but the BM holds three rings with this inscription, with variant spellings of ?unity?: Dalton Ring cat. 1163 and 1164, and 1961,12-2,167. None can be precisely dated, but all are either 17th or 18th century. The style of lettering continues well into the 1720s and 30s, and in the absence of any hallmarks, there is no evidence to confirm that this ring pre-dates 1705. | 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: | 1600
1730 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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