Copper alloy (brass) finger ring, no idea of age. This was a particularly evocative eyes only find from the weekend before last. This battered ring fits perfectly on my own ring finger, knowing I was the first person to slip it on since the original owner lost it (or threw it away) gave me an almost eerie connection with the past. Among the Anglo-Normans, the ring was always worn on the middle finger of the right hand, while in the latter part of the seventeenth century the wedding-ring was often worn on the thumb. The Quakers reject the ring as a remnant of Pagan superstition, and in the time of the Commonwealth the Puritans endeavored to abolish it for the same reason.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:21:23 +0000