Medieval gold ring with a blue stone

Medieval gold ring with a blue stone dating to the late C13th-early C14th.

Medieval gold ring with a blue stone dating to the late C13th-early C14th. The slender highly decorated hoop is divided into many facets creating lozenge fields into which crosses have been engraved, between each faceted lozenge are two vertical bands. The hoop is joined at the bezel by two degenerate dragon's heads which clasp the blue stone, probably a sapphire, found Tadley, Hampshire.

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