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FINGER RING
Unique ID: SUSS-DB9583
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Treasure case 2009 T208 - returned to finder
Gold fede ring with clasped hands holding a heart, rosettes flanking the ‘cuffs’. Inscribed ‘Noe recompense but love’. Maker’s mark MB in rectangle: the same mark is on British Museum finger-ring 1961,1202.254 but not identifiable in any standard reference works (see BM website under search the collection database/museum provenance and number search for images). The design of the ring suggests an 18th Century date rather than 17th Century date, and it is therefore unlikely to be more than 300 years old.
Judy Rudoe
Curator of Renaissance & Later Collections
Department of Prehistory & Europe
The British Museum
The ring is distorted but at its widest it is 21.5 mm and weighs 2.64 g.
Notes:
The find dates to later than 1709 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.
Inscription:
‘Noe recompense but love’
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder after being declared not Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2009 T208
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1700
Date to: AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 21.55 mm
Thickness: 0.87 mm
Weight: 2.64 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 11th April 2009
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2009 T208
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Ashford (District)
To be known as: Isle of Oxney
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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