Posted on 02/02/2023 8:15:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The find was discovered in Warwickshire, England, and was subsequently reported to the local Finds Liaison Officer from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, who in turn notified Historic England.
Experts have dated the jewellery to the early 16th century AD, with a most likely date of 1521 during his marriage to Catherine (married 1509 until their annulment in 1533)...
The jewellery is made from gold, with a heart-shaped pendant attached to a 75-link gold chain. The front of the pendant has been decorated with a motif depicting a red and white Tudor rose, entwined with a pomegranate bush (the symbols of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon). At the base is the inscription + TOVS + IORS, a pun in French for the word "always".
On the back of the pendant are the initials "H" and "K" (representing Henry and Katherine), written in Lombardic script and linked by a ribbon. Again, at the base is the inscription + TOVS + IORS.
It is believed that the jewellery may have been a prize worn by people participating in an event, similar to ones used on horse bards at a joust in Greenwich in 1521.
Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive at Historic England said: "This beautiful pendant is a thrilling discovery giving us a tangible connection to Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon and enriches our understanding of the Royal Court at the time."
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Not that long ago a fellow diggin g a garden in his back yard found the front piece figurine that was on one of the crowns of UK. IF I recallcorrectly one of the Henrys.
Nice party favors those Tudors gave out.
Forever is always BS with a Tudor KING...................
Beautiful find!
I wonder how many find treasures and then shut up about it.
Where was this beautiful jewelry found? If it was in Warwickshire, it’s mine. I lost something exactly like it when I was hiking through that county. I carried it as a good luck charm.
Historic England, please mail it to me. Don’t forget to insure it first.
I watch several you tubers who show them actually digging. Those fields in UK are goldmines.
Biggest find had to be Richard the Third under a parking lot.
And all I ever find is money when I’m out detecting...and WWII relics...and gold and silver jewelry...could be worse I guess. The last two weekends I dug up two 1883 coins, so that was cool, and a bag of coins from the 1920s to 1940s, and that was cool too, but I’m still waiting for the mega treasure score that I can retire on. *sigh*
Anyone else out there that gets their exercise by hiking and digging in dirt?
Yes! If anyone has an interest in this sort of thing, there is a really good (fictional) tv series about some British detectorists.
“Detectorists”: On Amazon Prime, Acorn, Roku, some others.
King John lost his entire treasure transporting it through ‘The Wash’ shortly before he died. It has never been recovered.
>>A mountain of old beverage can pull tabs.
I dig up thousands per year. It’s just one of those things we have to deal with, but there ways to avoid them to some extent.
>>I live near an old channel of the Yuba River near the mother lode. I was thinking of going up the left bank and seeing if I could find gold nuggets...
You can with the right gear. There’s gold in there. The right gear may be expensive, but with research and time you’ll probably find some nice gold bits. You might get better payback with gold panning / sluicing though. Give it a shot; it’s great fun.
Same as between a criminalist and a criminal.
That’s a bad enough deal to make a detectorist expectorate.
I should have specified.. this is an old channel where the river ran over 200 years ago but is now dry... there are pear orchards along each side. So you can walk inside the channel and scan up the bank... gold is usually found along the ‘cutting’ side according to what I’ve read about deposits along these rivers.
Wow! what a find! It is absolutely beautiful. That little Tudor rose 🥰
That little hand holding it is different.
Poor Catherine of Aragon. She was the real Queen of England. She got as my father would say, a real bum rap.
I wonder what the red was made of?
LOL=- I’ve found plenty of those-
I saw a documentary, think from Tony Robinson that delved into it.
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