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POST MEDIEVAL FINGER RING
A copper alloy twisted wire finger ring. One piece of plain wire is twisted into a double hoop and formed into an elaborate knot acting as a bezel. A second piece of wire which is twisted all along its length forms a frame round the bezel. It was probably gilded originally but there are no traces of this surviving. The metal is now light brown with only slight corrosion.Geoff Egan writes: “Wire-wo…
Subject
- archaeology - POST MEDIEVAL
Type of item
- FINGER RING
- Ring
Medium
- Copper alloy
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Creation date
- 1800
- 1800
Places
- United Kingdom; North Yorkshire; Hambleton
Identifier
- SWYOR-ABC1234
Year
- 1800
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-04-19T15:12:11.731Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:35:16.311Z