MEDIEVAL ENGLISH RING, C.400-700 AD, SIZE 9 05/16/2023 The style and proportions emulate

The style and proportions emulate Roman rings

The gold surface restored

Surface encrusted  from burial with mottled patina and verdigris

perhaps representing a raised hand which was a popular heraldic device

7mm band flaring slightly to the reeded shoulders which flank a small slightly open bezel which probably originally was filled with sealing wax

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH RING, C.400-700 AD, SIZE 9 05/16/2023 The style and proportions emulateSilvered bronze, size 9. 4. 0mm band flaring to the shoulders. Rounded rectangular bezel cut with chevrons flanking double reeded bands. See Ancient Rings, Pollio, p. 75 for three examples dated from late Roman to medieval, about 6th 12th century AD.