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Description: | A silver-gilt Late Medieval to Post-Medieval finger-ring. The hoop has split, possibly where it was originally soldered together, and it is partly bent out of shape. The hoop is broad and flat with raised edges and measures 9.90mm wide and 1.80mm thick. The raised edges are D-shaped in section and are decorated with a ribbon wreath and punched circles Each raised edge accounts for approximately one third of the width of the band. The central strip of the band also accounts for a third of the width. It is decorated with a single row of conjoined rectangles each containing a pair of short vertical lines and a diagonal line. The diagonal line alternates in direction from rectangle to rectangle.c.f. Treasure Annual Reports - 2003: 286; 2004: 366.Date: The raised edges and punched decoration are characteristic of the fifteenth and sixteenth 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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