File:15th century finger ring (FindID 891068).jpg

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15th century finger ring
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Kent County Council, Walter (Jo) Ahmet, 2018-02-26 11:52:00
Title
15th century finger ring
Description
English: An inscribed copper-alloy finger-ring, likely of 15-early 16th century date.

Description: The ring has band thin in width but with high thick borders. between the border is a slightly garbed inscription, the language of which is uncertain but appears to be either Anglo-French or Latin. All relatively unclear it appears to repeat the letters 'IVE' a number of times, occasionally with a B or a D looking letter. In total this seems to repeat 'BIVE IV DIVE' around the band twice. 'IV' is a possible if uncommon medieval Anglo-French version of the modern French 'JE' or even 'EN'. 'DIVE' could be 'DIEV' the French word for god. thus the second part of the inscription could be 'in god'. The ring is heavily patinated and grey colour with slight green tinge.

Measurements: 21.27mm in diameter, 4.98mm wide (1.19mm thick band) and 2.14g in weight.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 1400 and 1550
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 891068
Old ref: KENT-3F4BA2
Filename: KENT3F4BA2.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1003679
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1003679/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/891068
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License
Object location51° 07′ 01.56″ N, 0° 55′ 39.66″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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