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Description: | Cast copper alloy signet ring with an oval bezel and a hoop that is D-shaped in section and slightly internally bevelled opposite the bezel, where it has been worn. The bezel has been incised with a lion rampant, facing right, made up of linear limbs and tail with a heart-shaped tuft at the terminal. The fur that flows off the body and legs is defined by parallel oblique lines of varying lengths, and the whole figure is within an oval of pellets which forms a border on the edge of the bezel. The thin bezel, in profile, and the D-shaped hoop, in section, suggest that the ring is Post-medieval in date, and the rampant lion is more stylised than its Medieval equivalents.Cherry in Saunders (1991) illustrates a similar signet ring with a thin bezel with a crown within an oval of pellets, and a D-shaped hoop in section, on page 45, Fig.11, No.16, which is dated from the 16th century.Similar examples of copper alloy signet rings with rampant lions can be seen in records: DENO-09C218, BERK-977777, SUSS-C937A8, and a copper alloy seal matrix with a similar stylised lion in WILT-D39372, which are all dated from the 16th to the 17th century. There are also silver seal matrices with rampant lions in the same style on the database in records: YORYM-0019A4, PAS-E19B01 and LEIC-329FD3, which have gone through the Treasure process and are dated from the 17th century.
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