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Description: | A fragment from a piece of Medieval jewellery. It consists of a decorative mount soldered on to a flat band. The remains of the band are engraved on the outer surface with a cross set into a square. The mount has clusters of spheres at four equidistant points and in the centre has a high collet set with glass.
The purpose of this object is unclear. Superficially it resembles a finger-ring. However, the scale, weight and decoration make this unlikely. The collet resembles those used to decorate brooches, and the fragment may be part of a brooch bent out of shape. It might equally have formed one of a series of mounts decorating a box or a book cover.
The fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.
Dimensions: length 28 mm, 26 mm. | 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
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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