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FINGER RING
Unique ID: NMGW-26A732
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Decorative gold posy-ring. The hoop is of flattened D cross-section. The outer surface is engraved with a repeating vegetal pattern of stylized flowers and scrolls, on a blue enamel background. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: Forget not the gift, in italic script. There is an oval hall-mark, double struck and now indecipherable.
The internal hoop diameter 17 mm; maximum band width 2.5 mm; band thickness 0.8mm; weight 1.94g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.
The style of the lettering, which closely resembles that on an enamelled posy ring from Henllys, Monmouthshire (Treasure Ref. No. 13.17) and the decoration indicate that the ring is of late 16th- or early 17th-century date. Other examples of enamelled posy rings have been found in the Vale of Glamorgan at Llantrithyd, Vale of Glamorgan (NMW ref. no. 04.3; TAR 2004, fig. 501), Lower Monkton Farm, Monknash (found in 1993, with white and blue enamel), St Donats, (with green and white enamel and small dark blue pellets; 05.3; TAR 2005-6, 405, no. 1238), and two from Old Beaupre (NMW ref. no. 03.19, TAR 2003, fig. 420 and one with opaque white and translucent green enamel; 04.13; TAR 2004, fig. 500).
Class:
Posy
Inscription:
Forget not the gift
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2012TW15
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1560
Date to: Circa AD 1640
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 2.5 mm
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 1.94 g
Diameter: 17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 18th August 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: ST 2016.33
Treasure case number: 2012TW15
Materials and construction
Primary material: Gold
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Ceredigion (Unitary Authority)
District: Ceredigion (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cardigan (Community)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SN1745
Four figure Latitude: 52.07304584
Four figure longitude: -4.67159302
1:25K map: SN1745
1:10K map: SN14NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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