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Description: | The object is a decorative silver gilt finger ring. The hoop, which is of flattened D cross-section, has a break and is distorted. The outer surface is decorated with narrow bands comprising an engraved ring dot with four short 'spokes' (?stylized flower or star), separated by bands of raised dotes (each having eight rows). The band width is 8mm, band thickness 2.4mm and weight 9.987g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.The decorative style and form of the ring indicate that it probably dates to the period AD 1500-50. Similar examples with zig-zag banding have been found at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire (Treasure Annual Report 2005-6, no. 435) and onboard the Mary Rose, lost in the Solent in 1545 (81A2533; Redknap 2005, fig. 3.9). A silver ring with same design, though with rubies set in the diagonal bands, was found at York Minster in 1829 (also attributed to the sixteenth century; Dalton 1912, no. 1884). A silver gilt ring found at Llanover, Vale of Glamorgan, in 2004, has diagonal bands separating beaded panels (though more widely spaced) between a single moulded edge to the hoop (Treasure Annual Report 2004, Fig. 498). Variations on the diagonal band repeating design occur on late fifteenth-century finger rings (e.g. a ring with broad flat hoop and corded borders from Tortworth, Gloucestershire; Scarisbrick 2004, no. 149).
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