Finger ring
This ring is would have appeared golden when it was new. It was discovered during excavations at Polsloe Priory in Exeter, and must have been worn by a nun. Instead of a semi-precious stone, the setting holds cheap glass paste.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/M63
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- copper alloygiltglass
- Common Name
- finger ring
- Simple Name
- ring (finger)
- Period Classification
- Medieval (1200-1500)
- Production Date
- 1300
