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[edit]| Post medieval gold mourning ring | |||
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British Museum, Caroline McDonald, 2005-12-06 15:33:40 |
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| Title |
Post medieval gold mourning ring |
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| Description |
English: Late 17th or early 18th century gold mourning ring. The hoop is of D-shaped section. The exterior is engraved with a stylised skull flanked by triangular panels and cross-hatching within borders extending around the hoop. Both the skull and cross-hatching retain a substantial amount of black enamel. The interior is engraved with Roman capitals: M M, which retain small traces of black enamel. This inscription is likely to be an abbreviation of ‘memento mori’, rather than an individual’s initials.The ring has an external diameter of 20 mm, the hoop is 4 mmwide and it weighs 3.3 grams.
This is a characteristic type of mourning ring. A comparable example in the British Museum with cross-hatching restricted to triangular panels flanking the skull is dated 1691 (O. M. Dalton, catalogue of Finger-rings in the British Museum (London, 1912), cat. no. 1474), and further rings bearing representations of skulls (Dalton 1462-1482) date from the 1660s to the 1730s; in two of these the skull retains black enamel (Dalton 1471-1472). |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Essex | ||
| Date | between 1675 and 1725 | ||
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FindID: 116375 Old ref: ESS-5ACE64 Filename: Campeau gold ring Bromley small.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/86038 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/86038/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/116375 |
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