Rings with settings for stones

Ring
with red stone
RWS04

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval. 14th century.
Country of Origin: Europe
Material: Gilded
Size: 20mm x 22mm
Weight: 1.16 grams

Notes: The hoop is complete and unbroken with two raised shoulders set off the sides of the central pie-crust type stone setting. The stone is intested and naturally faceted. The gilding is almost complete.

Metal detecting find from Europe.

Similar to: Ring with similar setting from a private collection dated to 13th-14th century found in County Durham, England.

Ring
with jade stone
RWS05

Object: Finger ring
Culture: Medieval. 1300 - 1400.
Area of Origin: Piercebridge County, Durham. UK
Material: Bronze. Gilded, jade
Size: 20mm x 25mm
Weight: 0.87 grams

Notes: The hoop is complete and unbroken. The setting is pie-crust type with a single jade stone in situ. The stone, while worn, is undamaged and set cabuchon-style. Large amounts of gilding remain.

Provenance: From old Private Collection Medieval 1300-1400. Bronze ladies finger ring has been professionally cleaned to a high standard with original Jade stone a very wearable ancient artefact, found in County Durham England in the 1970s. L33r.

Similar to: Ring with similar setting from a site dated 14th century in Ukraine, Europe.

Finger ring
with stones
RWS03

Object: Ring.
Culture: Medieval. 14th-16th century
Area of Origin: West Cheshire, England.
Material: Bronze
Size: hoop: 22mm x 22mm
Size: top: 12mm x 12mm
Weight: 1.76 grams

Notes: Ring with setting for 7 stones, one central and six flanking. The bezel is made of coils of bronze forming a flower head shape. The ring hoop itself is constructed of a thin, flat band which is broken. There is one red stone remaining, which has yet to be identified.

Metal detection find. West Cheshire, close to the Welsh border, England.

UK size R.

Finger ring
with square bezel
RWS01

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval. 14th-15th century
Area of Origin: near Salisbury, England
Material: + glass stone
Size: 22mm diameter
Weight: 1.11 grams

Notes: Hoop is complete and unbroken with a projecting square bezel. Glass paste stone remains.

Similar to: Almost identical to 1 x PAS 14-15th C and 2 x PAS Records Copper alloy FINGER RING ROMAN SUR-E29966 and SUR-F75283.
Similar to: Item 1616 found at Swan Lane, Upper Thames Street, London. MoL Dress Accessories, Pritchard & Egan

Finger ring
with decoration
RWS02

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval. 14th-15th century
Area of Origin: Thames. England
Material: Bronze
Size: 14mm diameter
Weight: 1.11 grams

Notes: Finger ring with expanding hoop shank. Would possibly have been gold or silver plated when made. No stone remains. Central setting with raised circular decorations on both sides.

Rings without settings for stones

Finger ring
with engraved bezel
RWOS01

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval. 14th-15th century
Area of Origin: UK
Material: Silver, gold gilding
Size: 20.4mm x 20.2mm x 6.7mm
Weight: 1.3 grams

Notes: The ring hoop is complete and unbroken. Missing parts of the decoration on the shoulders, but retains its original full mercurial gold gilding.

The central bezel is engraved with a design which is uncertain.

Finger ring
with heart motif
RWOS03

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval
Area of Origin: England
Material: copper alloy
Size: 22mm
Weight: 1.66 grams

Notes: The ring is mostly complete with one shoulder of the central bezel missing on the right hand side. The shoulder of the left hand side has several radiating grooves. The tip of the heart-shaped central bezel is damaged. The heart motif has a singular line defining it.

Provenance: From old Private Collection.

Described as: Superb post Medieval copper alloy Lovers ring slight damage on bezel, found in England L48j.

Finger ring
Star of Jerusalem
RWOS05

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval
Country of Origin: Europe
Material: Gilded
Size: 16mm x 18mm
Weight: 1.67 grams

Notes: The ring is complete although bent. The raisen centre is circular and flat with a Star of Jerusalem motif. The Star of Jerusalem motif was popular with crusaders during the 11th-12 centuries, although it is unclear whether this ring dates to that time. The gilding is largely in tact.

Metal detecting find from Europe.

Similar to: There are many others of these dated to 11th to 12th centuries and later.

Finger ring
rectangular face
RWOS06

Object: Ring
Culture: date uncertain
Area of Origin: Europe
Material: metal, gilded
Size: 20mm x 22mm
Weight: 1.17 grams

Notes: The ring hoop is constructede of two wires which are slightly flattened. They seperate to support the rectangular-shaped fave which is raised. The face has a scalloped pattern around the edges and a recessed rectangle with a series of squares lined centrally down the centre. Th ehoop and the face and complete and unbroken. The gilding is almost entire.

Metal detecting find from Europe.

Similar to:

Finger ring
with clasped hands
RWOS04

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval. 12th-14th century
Country of Origin: Europe
Material: Bronze
Size: 18.5mm diameter
Weight: 1.30 grams

Notes: Medieval Bronze ring with handshake.
12th-14th century. Metal detecting find.

Similar to:

Finger ring
with possible heart motif
RWOS02

Object: Ring
Culture: Medieval, c15th century
Area of Origin: UK
Material: Bronze with traces of gold gilding
Size: 15mm diameter
Weight: 3.41 grams

Notes: The hoop is complete and unbroken. Traces of gold gilding remain on the hoop within the engraved lines. Possible heart motif.

Ring UK size H.