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Description: | A silver artefact which is probably a sewing-ring that would have been used in a similar way to a thimble.This artefact is made from a tube of white metal 0.3mm thick, now squashed into a flattened oval but presumed to have originally been formed as a circular tapering cylinder. No join is visible. The tube has a height of 22.32mm. The lower edge has been folded out and upwards to form a neat rim 0.7mm high, that increases the thickness at the rim to 0.8mm. The upper edge has no rim and this results in some uncertainty as to whether this is where the artefact originally terminated or whether a transverse break or cut has occurred at this point. The base of the cylinder has an oval measurement (diameter) of 13.9mm x 6.4mm. The cylinder then tapers to the upper edge which has an oval measurement (diameter) of 10.4mm x 3.4mm.The outer surface is decorated with incised or punched foliate design which extends downwards stopping 0.5mm from the rim. 2.5mm below the upper edge a transverse line of short diagonal dashes forms a border to the decorated field, the space above which is plain and undecorated. Within the decorative design are two areas that include a vertical line of three punched dots. On one of these areas only a single pellet is visible as G.E.W has been stamped in the location that the other two pellets would have occupied. These three letters form the maker's mark. Below the maker's mark three further symbols, hall marks, are present. Below the 'G', set in a square field with chamfered corners, is an anchor. This symbol is a city mark representing Birmingham. Below the 'E' is a lion passant gardant sinister (left) set in a rectangular field with chamfered corners. This symbol is the silver standard mark. Below the 'W' is a symbol, set within a square field with chamfered corners, maybe a capital 'D' indicating AD1852 or possibly a lower case 'n' for 1912. This symbol is the date letter indicating the year that the artefact was made.Some mud still adheres within the cylinder adding slightly to the weight which is 1.67g.See PAS record CAM-796FF4 which is an item of similar function, though earlier date, to the assumed function of the artefact recorded here. If this item was not a sewing ring it may have been used as a ferrule.
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