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===Other notable finds=== Other notable finds from Middleham include: *The [[Middleham Hoard]] β three pots containing 5,099 silver coins in total, buried in the [[English Civil War]]. This is the largest such hoard ever found.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Barclay |first=Craig |title=A Civil War Hoard from Middleham, North Yorkshire |journal=British Numismatic Journal |volume=64 |issue=8 |year=1994 |pages=84β98 |url=http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1994_BNJ_64_8.pdf |access-date=6 February 2014 |archive-date=3 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203022437/http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1994_BNJ_64_8.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> *A [[livery badge]] for pinning to the chest or a hat, in gilded copper high [[relief]], with Richard III's emblem of a [[white boar]] β this is likely to have been worn by one of his household, when he was Duke of Gloucester.<ref>John Cherry (2003), in Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds., ''Gothic: Art for England 1400β1547'', p. 204, no. 69, 2003, V&A Publications, London. {{ISBN|1-85177-401-7}}</ref> *The Middleham ring in the [[Yorkshire Museum]], found in 1990 β this gold ring is decorated with a low-relief inscription along the band reading ''SOVEREYNLY''.{{sfn |Cherry |1994 |pp=10β11}} *A circular, copper-alloy plaque ({{convert|70|mm|0|order=flip|adj=on}} diameter) bearing the initials "R" and "A" surrounded by the French motto ''A Vo. Plaisir'' (For your pleasure) β this may be a casket mark given by Richard, Duke of Gloucester to his wife Anne.{{sfn |Cherry |1994 |p=40}}
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