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Description: | Description: Medieval gold finger ring with an oval bezel, setting for (missing) stone held by ten claws, damaged. Band of ring is distorted into a D shape. The band of the ring is engraved with tears or drops of blood starting at the bezel (on both sides) and terminating midway down the band, leaving the lower portion of the bezel plain. The band tapers in width, thickest at the bezel.Dimensions: Diameter at widest:19.38mmBezel width: 7.56mmBezel height: 3.57mmBand thickness (max):6.05mmBand thickness (min): 2.74mm Weight: 3.3gDiscussion: This ring probably was intended to provide some kind of healing property to the wearer. Jewellery depicting the tears or blood of Christ, and the Five Wounds of Christ, were popular motifs for the expression of piety in Late Medieval Europe. The droplets may originally have been enamelled, although no traces of this survive.For other examples of rings depicting the tears or blood of Christ see Treasure cases 2011 T131 and 2009 T416.
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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