File:LEIC-734E08 late medieval gold and diamond finger ring (FindID 564277).jpg

English: Late medieval gold finger ring with two stones, 19mm in diameter and 10mm wide at bezel. The object is in good condition, but has two nicks one one side, which occurred during recovery. The objects weighs 5.71grams. The object consists of a loop 3.5mm wide and 1mm thick, which widens to 7mm at the shoulder. This has a rounded outer surface and a lipped border. The shoulders are decorated with a foliate motif of a central flower flanked by two leaves. This is picked out in blue/black? enamel at the top, with traces of grey/white enamel below on one shoulder. The bezel consists of two sub-circular settings which join at the middle and at a spherical knop on each side of the centre. These settings have four sub-oval shaped recesses which appear to depict a flowers petals? In one of these is an uncut pink ruby.. The other contains a diamond which is triangular when viewed from the side but rectangular from above. It is simply cut, so that two faces with a bevelled edge are on show. The underside of the bezel has sets of linear depressions, perhaps tooling marks?

John Cherry, former keeper of the department Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum, commented that this is an early example of a diamond set gold ring. He compares this to a ring in the collection of the British Museum, AF.1090, (bit.ly link removed) British Museum database.