mourning-ring

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Object Type: mourning-ring
Museum number: AF.1602
Description: Mourning ring; gold; round the outside of the hoop a skeleton with arrow between legs, crown, cross-bones, hour-glass, pair of wings, star, spade and pick crossed; panel with inscription over sword and two crossed spears; inscribed. D-section. No maker's mark
Production date: 1714 (date of inscription)
Production place: Made in: England
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Suffolk
Materials: gold; enamel
Technique: enamelled
Dimensions: Diameter: 21.13 millimetres; Height: 3.52 millimetres; Weight: 5 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Text from Dalton 1912, Catalogue of Finger Rings: ' (Bateman Coll.) Found in Suffolk.'
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1912 / Franks Bequest Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, KCB, in which are included the other rings of the same period in the Museum. (1531)
Location: On display (G46/dc14)
Subjects: death; arms/armour; crown; symbol; tool/implement
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Bateman
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: AF.1602

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