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You have to ignore the deeper lines flying off & under the belly & focus on the shallower impression. Head is on the left, legs sort of disappear, but head, neck with rein, main part of body & bit of tail are there. If I had steadier hands I'd try to outline it for you.

 

Thanks B - everything I learned about heraldry has either been from this forum, or Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(heraldry)

 

In case someone has a couple of years to kill:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41617/41617-h/41617-h.htm

 

Correction: credit where credit is due, it was 2manybooks who introduced that term.

 

Keep us posted as to what you find out!

 

Same state of mind for me

Most utterly depressed with the idea you might find something else to DESTROY...

That is OBVIOUS...

Sure!!!

 

@branvan30000 Nice find ! The matching ring for the other hand had a squire with two Coconuts I'm sure ! ( Hope the joke is not lost there....)

While some might be quick to judge , I would remind that people have been loosing and throwing things out for centuries , and what one person thinks is an archaeological treasure might have been rubbish a century ago... let's not be so quick to condemn someone for digging up a ring when in the big picture of life there are far great atrocities like nazi plundering which still have not been dealt with properly 65 years later ..... just my two Philippine peso's and one supposed Golden Buddha's worth ........

I would definitely research it more !

 

What she said.

 

These little green patches look like they are showing through at spots where the brown incrustation has chipped away at the edge. Am I seeing that accurately?



BTW, it goes this way up, the way Aaron has it, with the groundline at the bottom.

 

The green bits look to me like the last little remnants of the original patina (and a very nice patina it was).

 

Agree.

 

I'll take it to an antique shop in Muenchen, see what they say.

 

Nothing wrong with diggin a thing up, I know very responsible diggers and larkers. Not one of them would destroy a thing.

 

The key word here is "responsible". Letting a person loose with a metal detector with no training or regard for history, archeology, context, provenance or ethics is equivalent to looting.

 

don't forget to throw pilfering in there also lol, have you done a magnet test ?

 

Exactly so. @Darkwing Manor .

 

Other way up I was thinking I saw a sort of chicken......but those lines on the one end I was also thinking might be "grounding" lines too....but I do wish I could see remnants of a horse.....other than a largish horse's head....stylized!

 

I don't know if anyone saw this, or whether it's so obvious it nobody thought to add it, but I think the three "dents" are not damage, but are part of the design. They form the neck, body, and haunches of the horse.
To see it, imagine the light coming from the top right, and you can imagine what the impression in wax would look like. The horse seems clear to me, with the reigns trailing in the wind. Or maybe the inverted image below it makes it easier for some to see.

 

I'm not good at this & any little zigs & zags are my unsteady hands:



The ring looks post-Medieval & may not fall under anything comparable to Britain's Portable Antiquities Scheme.