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A Ring Through History : Another Version of the Story of the Prior’s Ring
When the churchyard of St Mary’s Church, Pilton, was extended to the north in 1867, the beautiful gold and sapphire Prior’s Ring was found in a ball of clay under an ash tree. A paper by John Cherr...
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DEVON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPER ON A MEDIEVAL GOLD RING FOUND AT PILT...
'The Prior's Ring' of Pilton was found buried under a tree in a garden close to Pilton Churchyard in 1867. The owner of the site, a Doctor Forrester, took the ring to the British Museum for identif...
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A Medieval Gold Ring Found at Pilton, Devon in 1867
Elsewhere in The Pilton Story we have reported the story of 'The Prior's Ring' which was found buried under a tree in a garden close to Pilton Churchyard in 1867. The owner of the site, a Doctor Fo...
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The Prior's Ring
This is a mediaeval gold ring, set with a cabochon sapphire surrounded with a bezel engraved with a Hebrew inscription translated as ‘May Jesu Emmanuel Jehova be with us’, and on the reverse, in La...
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Pilton Street in the Snow in 1924 by Bruce William Oliver
This is an original pen and ink sketch of Pilton Street in deep snow by Bruce William Oliver of Barnstaple probably dating from the winter of 1923-24. Bruce Oliver was a prominent architect in Bid...
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Map of the Broadgate Estate, Pilton, being sold in 1918
This map is part of the catalogue for the Broadgate Estate being sold in May 1918. The text of the catalogue is available in the archive. Follow this link: http://vimp.thepiltonstory.org/documen...
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The Story of a North Devon Victorian Painter, Frederick Richard Lee, R.A...
This is an account of the life of Frederick Richard Lee, the Victorian landscape artist who, from 1858 until his death in 1879, spent some of his time living at Broadgate House, Pilton. It include...
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