MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN RING, SIZE 6 ¼ jewerly Circular bezel inscribed with unintelligible

Circular bezel inscribed with unintelligible figures or ciphers

Anglo-Saxon

Circular bezel with a central cross of triple line beams

This example is size 4 with a 1

MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN RING, SIZE 6 ¼ jewerly Circular bezel inscribed with unintelligibleHighly identifiable type popular in Northern Europe in the 15th 17th century. See Ancient Rings, Pollio, p. 30. Gilt bronze, large size 6 1 4 with 2. 3mm rounded face band with expanded shell form shoulders. Circular bezel with a radial motif in place of the usual stylized Star of Bethlehem. That deviation was possibly the result of the Reformation (started 1517) and a rejection of Catholic symbolism. Surface textured from burial. Professionally