Mourning jewelry was one of the most remarkable, exciting, and macabre elements of Victorian mourning fashion. Made from black and gold metals, it was often decorated with engraved inscriptions ...

A metal detectorist uncovered the mourning ring inscribed with the name of Hugh Miller - a Highland stonemason who went on to be regarded as one of Victorian Britain's greatest minds. The ring is ...

Miller was a Victorian era Scottish geologist ... a mystery to how the ring ended up on a beach in Cape Town. Mourning jewellery was common in Miller’s time, and the 18-carat gold ring is ...

Artefact may have belonged to daughter and been lost while she or her children were travelling between UK and Australia ...

Mourning jewellery was common at the time of Miller ... he went on to become a renowned Victorian intellectual who was remembered as the “supreme poet of geology” in 2002 at the bicentennial ...

Mourning jewellery was common at the time of Miller who ... he went on to become a renowned Victorian intellectual who was remembered as the “supreme poet of geology” in 2002 at the bicentennial ...

Mourning jewellery was common at the time of Miller ... he went on to become a renowned Victorian intellectual who was remembered as the “supreme poet of geology” in 2002 at the bicentennial ...