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Description: | A silver gilt finger ring, probably of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, probably/possibly 15th to 16th century AD. The ring weighs 3.44g and an external diameter of 22.1mm. The band has a width of 5.3mm, thickness of 1.2mm and a rectangular cross section. The external surface has been decorated with incised lines arranged transversely, laterally and diagonally across the surface. These lines are arranged to form six lozenge shaped fields each separated by a transverse line. The centres of three of the lozenges are decorated with multiple intersecting lines that form a star design similar to an asterisk, formed of a minimum of four intersecting lines resulting in a minimum of an eight pointed star. These lozenges are arranged alternately with fields about half the length of the fields already described. The lozenges within these three fields are infilled with multiple diagonal lines that lay approximately parallel with the sides of the lozenges that they fill. Each corner of each field out side of the lozenges, both of the shorter and longer fields, are filled by a single diagonal line linking the transverse 'field dividing' lines to the edge of the band.The solder line is not visible on the external surface but, although smoothed over, is visible on the interior surface of the band.
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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