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FINGER RING
Unique ID: SUSS-F25354
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Fragment of a copper-alloy 'stirrup-shaped' finger-ring with a slender hoop rising to a pointed bezel 5.5mm high by 3.6mm thick. The bezel has an oval setting; the stone, glass or paste 'gem' is missing but the setting contains the remains of the white cement, perhaps calcium carbonate, that would have been used to hold the 'gem' in place. The ring has old breaks on the hoop with about one-third of the original diameter surviving. The ring is similar to examples in Egan and Pritchard 1991 (p. 326; refs. 1608, 1609); they suggest this form was popular from the mid 12th to mid 15th century, although most fashionable at the earlier part of the range. Incomplete diameter 17.4 mm, hoop 1.9mm wide by 1.6mm thick at the break; it weighs 1.02g.
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.6 mm
Weight: 1.02 g
Diameter: 17.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 4th November 2009
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Folkestone and Hythe (District)
To be known as: Snargate
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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