According to Allison Fox, Curator for Archaeology at Manx National Heritage:
“The ring is small and quite delicate in form, but of a high quality and intact. The quality suggests that it was made for, or on behalf of, an individual of high status. It is unlikely that we will be able to establish for certain who owned the ring or whom it commemorated, but there is a possibility that it may have been associated with the Stanley family, previously Lords of Man. The initials JD may refer to James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Lord of Man, a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War
Denny Freeman, who helped give rise to Austin’s blues scene in the 1970s playing with Stevie Ray Vaughan and later became the touring guitarist in Bob Dylan’s band, died Sunday after being diagnosed with abdominal cancer last month. He was 76.
Born Aug. 7, 1944, in Orlando, Fla., Freeman grew up in Dallas, playing in a high school band called the Corals before moving to Austin in 1970. Freeman and Vaughan soon were playing together with singer Paul Ray and others in a group called the Cobras at venues including the One Knite and Soap Creek Saloon.
They were part of a wave of musicians who arrived here around that time, including guitarist Jimmie Vaughan (Stevie’s older brother), singers Angela Strehli and Lou Ann Barton and University of Texas student Clifford Antone, who eventually opened a downtown nightclub that became the community’s mecca.
The crystal ring was probably made to honor James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
Stanley s family ruled the Isle of Man for centuries, starting in the 1400s
In the 1600s, mourning rings were given out as mementos when someone died
The ring has a gold band and the initials JD on it
Stanley, who signed his letters J. Derby, was a supporter of King Charles I
He was beheaded by Cromwell s forces after Charles defeat in the Civil War
Civil war era crystal and gold ring declared treasure
Mon, 19 Apr 2021
A 350 year old gold and crystal ring discovered on the Isle of Man has today been declared Treasure by the Isle of Man Coroner of Inquests, Mrs Jayne Hughes. Discovered in December 2020 by metal detectorist Lee Morgan, the ring is 21.5mm in diameter, made from gold, with a crystal stone 12mm diameter, covering gold lettering of the initial capital letters J (or I) and D. Each shoulder of the ring is decorated with an engraving of a leaf inlaid with black enamel. It dates to the mid to late AD 1600s and is a Stuart-period mourning ring, sometimes distributed at funerals to commemorate the person who had died, usually including their initials.
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