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FINGER RING
Unique ID: GLO-0759FE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A silver gilt medieval finger ring that is surmounted by a thick sexfoil bezel. The bezel has seven recessed semicircles on the top edge arranged with one centrally and the others positioned in each of the six petals of the sexfoil. The shoulders are short with a narrow waist and expand to the straight sided rectangular hoop. The hoop is has seven transverse bars that divide the surface in to eight rectangular panels with bevelled sides, each panel is decorated with an incised lozenge border that has an inward projecting line in the centre of all four sides, thereby creating a quatrefoil shape.
Only the outside face of the ring is gilded
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Submitted for consideration as Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2017T686
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 24 mm
Width: 8 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 4.12 g
Diameter: 23 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 12th February 2017
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2017T686
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Tarrant Crawford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9102
Four figure Latitude: 50.81747396
Four figure longitude: -2.12912413
1:25K map: ST9102
1:10K map: ST90SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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