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Description: | Tiny gold ring formed of a thin band inscribed inside in lower case: I present the absent. The ring has been enlarged at a later date a patch has been inserted just before the inscription begins.
Note: This inscription is recorded in three different versions by Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy-Rings (Oxford, 1931), p. 62. Its small size suggests it was given to a young woman as a keepsake to remember an absent sweetheart. The inscription is a contracted form of I am present instead of the absent. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daniel Pett | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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