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Description: | A fragment from a silver Late Medieval Finger ring. The description is taken from the treasure report by Dr Kevin Leahy.
The fragment is broken and cracked and represents around 40% of c. 22mm diameter ring. The surviving part of the hoop is decorated with a deeply incised pattern of narrow leaves emerging from a single stem, one of the strands terminating, at the bezel, in a star-like flower. It appears that the leaves were in spiral bands around the hoop. The rectangular bezel is 8.3mm wide and is separated from the hoop by two deeply incised lines. It is incomplete but contained a series of figurative panels separated by ridges. One panel is complete and contains a rather crudely incised figure a seated woman wearing a crown, probably Our Lady, Queen of Heaven. The other panel was also figurative but is incomplete and cannot be interpreted. It is likely that there were originally three figurative panels, these are unusual in that they are set at 90 degrees to the hoop?s circumference and not parallel to it as is usual. The form of the bezel can be paralleled on the ring from Berwick Basset, Wilts (Annual Treasure Report 1998-1999, page 65, Fig. 140). | 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: | 1450
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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