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Description: | Incomplete and distorted silver 'stirrup-shaped' finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, back missing, expands slightly from the breaks, through the shoulders, to the bezel with an oval recess with keying in the base for a (missing) stone. There is a cast or engraved 'X' on each shoulder, and very worn traces of further possible decoration, now indecipherable, on one side of the surviving part of the hoop. Very slight traces of gilding.13th - 16th century.Original external diameter (estimated) 19mm. Width at bezel 4mm. Weight 0.7g.Perhaps similar to a better preserved example from Ashwell, Hertfordshire (PAS database number PAS-341274, treasure case 2006 T437); also comparable to a ring retaining a facetted stone is in the British Museum Collection (Dalton, No 1894), both dated to the 16th Century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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