Gold Ring

Medieval

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

1216 - 1272

A gold ring, bearing a Medusa head with a Lombardic inscription running round it 'X S : SECRETI : ADE : NOVIFORI +'. The owner, Adam of Newmarket, lived in the reign of Henry III (1216-1272).

• Medium: gold
• Art Fund Grant: £100 ( Total: £150)
• ArtFunded in: 1953
• Vendor: Spink & Son

Provenance

Found Shepreth, Cambs, in 1940

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