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Description: | Copper alloy finger ring. Band decorated with a series of nine stamped star and crescent motifs executed while the strip was flat, and with its ends brazed together at a butt joint, now failing, which has left prominent traces on the inner circumference, and disrupts the decoration on the outer. This is probably a 'fairing' or item of trinket jewellery. The close correspondence of the thickness to a round metric unit may hint at foreign, probably German, manufacture after 1800, when the Continental metric system of measures was promulgated under Napoleon. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900.Internal diameter: 17.3mm, Band Width: 4.6mm, Band Thickness: 1.0mm, Weight: 1.60gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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