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Drawings Impression from a signet ring, Towton, N. Yorks.

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.76

Production date

1789

Material

paper
chalk

Technique

Rubbing

Dimensions

Height (top drawing): 57 mm
Width (top drawing): 70 mm
Height (bottom drawing): 60 mm
Width (bottom drawing): 75 mm
Height (of Mount): 276mm
Width (of Mount): 120mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Signet of a Gold Ring found at Towton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire 1789. May.

Inscription content

one ounce four pennyweights
nine grains.

References

Reference (free text)

Charles Oman, British Rings, 800-1914 (London: B T Batsford, 1974), pp. 103-4. Illustration, fig. D, pl. 41.