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FINGER RING
Unique ID: LEIC-F01DF8
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Published 
Medieval silver finger ring, 26mm in diameter, 4mm wide and 3mm thick, witha weight of 9.04g. The ring has a hoop which is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat sub-rectangular bezel, 15mmm long and 12mm wide. This is engraved with a lower-case black-letter h in a sub-rectangular rope-effect border made up of small oblique lines; this border is broken at the top by a stylised crown with central lis flanked by two half-lis. Around this is an engraved inscription, again in lower-case black-letter script, within an octagonal border again of rope-effect. The use of black-letter script dates this ring to the late 14th or 15th centuries.
Malcolm Jones has read the inscription on this signet ring as the wearer's name, hari lodefurd or Harry Lodeford. The surname must derive from one of the places so called, such as Lydford in Devon, Lydford in Somerset, or Lodeford in Shropshire.
Class:
signet
Inscription:
hari lodefurd
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Warwickshire Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2013T827
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Exactly AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 4 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 9.04 g
Diameter: 26 mm
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2013T827
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: North Warwickshire (District)
Parish or ward: Ansley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP2992
Four figure Latitude: 52.52510814
Four figure longitude: -1.57399321
1:25K map: SP2992
1:10K map: SP29SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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