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FINGER RING
Unique ID: DEV-668075
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Gold finger-ring
This is a thin gold ring inscribed inside in lower case script with an inscription that is hard to read but may be a version of 'Live, love and be happy', as recorded in J, Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings, 1931. Two words certainly are legible in the middle of the text as 'and love'. The maker's mark is not decipherable; due to this fact it is therefore not possible to confirm that this ring is more than 300 years old.
Due to the undiagnostic nature of the find it cannot be securely dated to pre-1708 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.
Inscription:
Live, love and be happy
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: with Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder after being declared not Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2008T772
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 2.29 mm
Thickness: 1.28 mm
Weight: 1.98 g
Diameter: 20.75 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st August 2008
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2008T772
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: North Devon (District)
To be known as: South Molton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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