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FINGER RING
Unique ID: BERK-8389D5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A silver gilt iconographic style Medieval finger ring, dating to the 15th Century AD. The ring is complete and in very good condition with little damage or wear. The ring has a three-facetted bezel (measuring 13.25mm long and 3.19mm thick), the side panels being decorated with crude foliate designs and the top panel decorated with crudely incised lines in four small panels. The shoulders of the hoop are moulded stylised acanthus leaves, while further round the hoop is another small moulded division, again similar to an acanthus leaf beneath two horizontal bands, also echoed on the opposite side of the band. A number of similar examples have been recorded on this database. AD 1400-1499.
Notes:
As this ring is over 300 years old and is more than 10% gold or silver it qualified as Treasure under the stipulations of the 1996 Act. Unfortunately no museum was able to acquire it and it has been returned to the finder.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Declared Treasure but returned to Finder as Museum unable to acquire
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2011T665
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1499
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.19 mm
Weight: 6.5 g
Diameter: 23.04 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st October 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2011.324
Treasure case number: 2011T665
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
To be known as: Vale of the White Horse area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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