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Description: | Copper alloy finger ring. Cast ring, possibly a signet ring. A circular bezel of diameter 10.8mm with bevelled sides bearing a pendant incised and billeted double line border on either side, with fainter continuation lines dividing the base of the bezel from the shoulders of the ring. The design on the bezel is a simple equal armed cross. In monastic tradition, a nun would be accounted a 'bride of Christ' after the completion of her Final Vows, and such a ring might mark this passage - the motif is somewhat plain to have distinguished the author of a letter or subscriber to a document, and a lack of superfluous decoration might have been significant to a Mendicant or Observant religious. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500.Internal Diameter: 16.3mm, Height (at bezel): 25.1mm, Weight: 5.66gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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