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FINGER RING
Unique ID: NMGW-C55D9F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Silver gilt decorative ring with two transverse flutes on the bezel, each engraved with a repeating pattern of alternating flowers filling triangular panels. The bezel is separated from the hoop by a deep transverse mouldings of each side. Below these mouldings, the hoop has a median ridge on each side, each facet with engraved sprig-like decoration. The inside of the oval hoop is plain.
Internal hoop diameter 19.3mm x 21.3mm; bezel width 8.7mm; band thickness at base 1.4mm; weight 5.16g.
The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.
Notes:
The form of the ring is late medieval, and the decoration similar to that of some late fifteenth-century gold decorative rings, including iconographic rings (e.g. Taylor and Scarisbrick 1978, nos 426, 427). A similar flower motif occurs on a late medieval silver gilt decorative ring in the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A 6769-1860; Oman 1930, no. 269).
Class: Silver gilt
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Ceredigion Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2015TRW17
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 5.16 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st June 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: STTS 2017.06
Treasure case number: 2015TRW17
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Secondary material: Gold
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Ceredigion (Unitary Authority)
District: Ceredigion (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Llanilar (Community)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SN6075
Four figure Latitude: 52.35513315
Four figure longitude: -4.05709519
1:25K map: SN6075
1:10K map: SN67NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oman, C. | 1993 | Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings 1930 | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing | |||
| Taylor, G. and Scarisbrick, D. | 1978 | Finger rings from Ancient Egypt to the present day | Lund Humphries (for the Ashmolean Museum Oxford and the Worshipful Cmpany of Goldsmiths, London) |
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