Record ID: WREX-9007E5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description and identification Decorative gold posy-ring. The hoop is of flattened-D cross-section, and the outer surface is cast with a repeating floral pattern quatrefoils flowers flanked by foliage, inlaid with black enamel. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: If worthy none So happy, in italic script. External hoop diameter 16.1 mm; maximum band width 3mm; maximum band thickness 0.9mm; weight 1.65g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Conclusions A similar design has been recorded on a posy ring from Llantwit Major, engraved with the m…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WREX-BA4CC3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a gold ring in the form of a band decorated with white enamelled pentafoils and green enamel inlaid sprigs (indicated by ҂⁕҂) separating letters in the following legend: ne ҂⁕҂⁕҂ el ҂⁕҂ autre ҂⁕҂⁕҂ (in Black Letter script). There are traces in while enamel in some of the engraved letters. The inside of the ring hoop is plain. The object has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. The maximum external hoop diameter 17.8mm; internal hoop diameter 16.1mm; band width 4.6mm; band T 0.7mm; weight 1.8g. M…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanynys', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-7BF09B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold posy-ring. The thin, slightly misshapen hoop is of flattened-D cross-section, and the outer surface is cast and plain. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: Wheare this I give I wish to live, in italic script. External hoop diameter 17.5 x 18.4 mm; maximum band width 2.8mm; maximum band thickness 0.6mm; weight 0.93g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Conclusions The same motto Where this I give I wish to live has been recorded on a seventeenth-century enamelled gold posy ring from Old Beaupre, Vale of Glamorgan (Treasure Case 04.13…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-38D607
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Welsh Treasure Case: 21:14 [Addendum to Treasure Cases 12.13, 13.23 & 14.01] The reported object is a gold ring in the form of a band decorated with two raised pelleted ridges framing three engraved words, spaced with flowers:  de bon cuer (in Black Letter script) ‘in/of good heart’.  The inside of the ring hoop is plain. The maximum external diameter is 16.4 x 18mm; internal hoop diameter 15.2-16.2mm; band width 5.4mm; band T 0.7-0.8mm; weight 1.74g. There are slight traces of white enamel in the engraved leaves below the flower heads. The object has …
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bronington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-115AD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The object is a decorative gold ring with a deep oval bezel (height 5.7mm), once set with a small uncut (cabochon) stone, perhaps a sapphire. There is a small transverse ridge on each side of the bezel at the junction with the hoop, and the lower half of the bezel is chamfered to give a truncated biconical profile. The hoop is slightly misshapen and incomplete, and of circular cross-section. Bezel diameter 8.2 x 6.5mm; hoop thickness 1mm at bottom, 1.9mm at junction with bezel; bezel height 5.7mm; weight 1.69g. Summary and conclusions The Mathern finger ring has a form …
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-1148D7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of flattened D cross-section. The convex outer surface is undecorated. The flat inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: * feare god and loue mee x, in vertical italic script. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. Dimensions: Internal hoop diameter 18.7 mm; external hoop diameter 22.15mm; band thickness1.5; band height 6.2mm; weight 9.7g. Discussion: The style of the lettering and decoration, and form of the ring, indicate that it is of 17th- or early eighteenth-century date (after AD 1650). Similar motto…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-10CCA3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description Gold posy ring in the form of a plain broad band of flattened D cross section. The inner face is engraved with legend *CONTINEW + FAITHFVLL  in Roman capitals. The hoop is slightly misshapen and has an internal diameter of 18.1 x 13.1mm; band width 4.1mm; band thickness of 0.6mm; weight 2.73g. Discussion Dating is reliant on the legend and the style of lettering, which is typical of a seventeenth-century date. Posy inscriptions fall into a number of formulaic categories (see Evans 1931, 54), with mottoes such as ‘Lets live & die in unity’, &lsquo…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-C5F371
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Published
Gold fede or fidelity ring. The hoop is of wounds triangular cross-section. The outer surface is plain. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: Feare god and love mee, in vertical italic script. Internal hoop diameter 18.6 mm; external hoop diameter 23.2mm; band width 2.3mm; band height 4.8mm; weight 5.31g. The ring has not undergone any cleaning or conservation.
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-6719BC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring of flattened D cross-section, and slightly mishapen. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text Fear God love me in italic script, preceded with a small rectangular hall mark with the initials AP. The ascenders on the d of the text turn to the left, ending in a small loop. The ascenders on the 'l' turn to right, ending in a small loop. These features can be seen in early eighteenth-century writing guides, such as George Shelley's Penna Volans, after ye English, French & Dutch Way, of c. 1710, and examples of business writing of about 1711 (Whalley 1980, 252-3…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-64D499
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold iconographic finger-ring of late medieval or very early post-medieval date. It has a flat oval longitudinal bezel, engraved with the images of St Catherine holding a sword in her right hand. A wheel (symbol of her martyrdom) protrudes from behind her left side. The hoop is decorated on the shoulders and sides with sprigs. The inside of the hoop bears the legend ·en∙boen∙eure∙ ('In Good Hour') in black-letter script, between sprigs. The rough surface of the background to the bezel suggest that this may have been enamelled, but only cleaning of this area and th…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-3E31B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
The mount comprises a gold baseplate, slightly crumpled, cut to a curved tapering form with a straight wide end, to fit the recessed cell of a (now missing) gilt bronze or silver penannular or pseudo-penannular brooch. The outer face of the baseplate is decorated with a spherical blue glass bead set in a gold collar, and a pattern of S- and Z-scrolls delineated by beaded wire (filigree) and other motifs (C-scrolls with central scrolled stems) within a plain beaded wire border. To one side of the bead is a now empty rectangular collet. The overall length of the base-plate is 22.5mm;…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3BA0FE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ring in the form of a plain broad band of flattened D cross section. The inner face is engraved with legend X I LYKE MY CHOYS in Roman capitals. The hoop has an internal diameter of 19mm; external diameter of 21.6mm; band width 5.7mm; band thickness of 0.9mm; weight 6.41g. The finger ring from Llangunllo has a form which is hard to date, existing in the fifteenth century, and continuing up to the present. Dating is therefore reliant on the legend and the style of lettering, which is typical of a seventeenth-century date. There are a number of variants of this inscription rec…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3B7544
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorative gold ring is of part-hollow construction, with a hexagonal bezel set with a small uncut (cabochon) blue sapphire which is now in two fragments. The hoop broadens at the shoulders (the hollow element), where there is a low ridge either side of the bezel. This part of the hoop has a flattened triangular cross-section; the lower part of the hoop is misshapen. Internal width of bezel at rim15 x 7mm; height of bezel 4.5mm; external width of bezel 8mm; minimum band width 2.2mm; minimum band thickness 0.3mm; weight of ring 2.45g; weight of stone 0.26g. The form of this gold finger…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pembroke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-4CCFA5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorative gold mourning ring. The hoop is of flattened D cross-section. The outer surface is cast with a repeating floral pattern. The inner face of the hoop is inscribed with the text: G. K. obt 26 March 1702 (italic script) Internal hoop diameter 17 mm; band width 4mm; band thickness 2mm; weight 5.8g. The style of the lettering and decoration, and the inscription date the ring to 1702. The ring is a fine example of what has been described as the earliest definite type of mourning ring, in use from the reign of Charles II until about 1720 (Oman 1930, 39). It typically recor…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
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