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FINGER RING
Unique ID: SUSS-7CE182
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Medieval to Post Medieval silver-gilt finger-ring, c. 1400-c. 1525
Silver-gilt ring , flat inner hoop with five projections divided by ridges. On the projections are lightly engraved panels of foliate ornament with three leaves and one with IHS [name of Jesus], The Virgin crowned, M crowned for MARIA.
Dimensions:
Width: 7.8 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 7.07 g
Diameter: 22.5 mm
Discussion: Gilding worn on some ridges to reveal silver beneath. This devotional ring would appear to be late 15th-early 16th Century. There are no direct parallels in the British Museum collection. Compare however AF 933-4 for silver-gilt and gold rings with panels with figurative decoration interspersed or framed with foliate ornament in projecting ridged panels though of different form. Compare 71b, a ring in the Victoria and Albert Museum, there dated early 16th Century in C.Oman, British Rings, London 1974.
Notes:
Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder after being disclaimed as Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2016T264
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1525
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 7.8 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 7.07 g
Diameter: 22.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st November 2015 - Sunday 1st November 2015
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2016T264
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Secondary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Arun (District)
Parish or ward: Barnham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU9403
Four figure Latitude: 50.81892619
Four figure longitude: -0.66695848
1:25K map: SU9403
1:10K map: SU90SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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