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Gold Post-Medieval posy ring
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The British Museum, Victoria Wolfe, 2011-07-27 11:08:38
Title
Gold Post-Medieval posy ring
Description
English: Gold Post-Medieval posy ring decorated on the exterior with a pattern of stylised scrolls and foliate ornament incorporating a vase motif, reserved in gold on a black enamel ground. The interior inscribed: Quo me fata vocant (I will go where fate calls me). Both exterior and inscription contain the original enamel in very good condition. The ring dates to the 17th century.

For a ring with closely similar decoration with almost identical scrolls, and inscription dated 1621, see A. B. Chadour, Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, 2 vols, Leeds 1994, vol. I, no. 733.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1600 and 1700
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 455698
Old ref: PAS-FE21B1
Filename: 2004T70a.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/338993
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/338993/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/455698
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Object location52° 11′ 15.36″ N, 1° 51′ 56.84″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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