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Unique ID: PUBLIC-28CA4B
Object type certainty: Certain
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Part of an enamelled copper alloy medieval finger ring with traces of gilding possibly in a Limoges style of around the second half of 16th century. The ring consist of a high box bezel with the socket for the 'stone' empty.The shoulders of the ring are decorated on all four sides with circular spots of light blue enamel with slender blue triangles pointing down the hoop of the ring. The other surfaces are decorated with incised curliques in which the gilding survives. Under the bezel the ring is decorated a saltire cross that also has gilding. The hoop is incomplete and may have been decorated but this is not clear from the photographs (the writer has only seen photos of the ring). For a well preserved gold, high status example see Scarisbrick and Henig (2003) p.57.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Height: 16 mm
Width: 10 mm
Weight: 3 g
Diameter: 20 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 6th October 2014
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Scarisbrick, D. and Henig, M. | 2003 | Finger Rings: from Ancient to modern | Oxford | Ashmolean Museum | 57, pl 19,no. 3 |