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FINGER RING
Unique ID: BERK-38E52A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A gold 'posy' finger ring of post-medieval date, now distorted and with a broken hoop. The finger ring has a thick D-shaped section with no external decoration but as is usual for these rings there is an internal inscription. This inscription reads ' I love and like my choyce' in a lower case script. A maker's mark consisting of capital W in a sub-rectantgular cartouche above a simlar cartouche filled with six pellets preceeds the inscription.
In its current state the finger ring has a maximum length of 32.8mm. The band is 1.7mm thick and 4.9mm wide. The ring weighs 7.2 grams.
No parallel for the maker's mark could be found in the British Museum collections, however the style of writing and the style of the marks, as well as the inscription, suggests a date of c. 1650-1750 AD. A very simlar example, with the same inscription but different maker's mark (attributed) was found recently in Oxfordshire. See database record BERK-E8717E.
Notes:
As this object cannot be securely dated to pre-1717 AD, it falls outside of the remit of the Treasure Act 1996.
Inscription:
I love and like my choyce
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.8 mm
Width: 4.9 mm
Thickness: 1.7 mm
Weight: 7.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 17th September 1899
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OXPAS2018.002
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Stanton St. John (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5608
Four figure Latitude: 51.76788516
Four figure longitude: -1.18988448
1:25K map: SP5608
1:10K map: SP50NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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