Finger-Ring Lore

Everything a Victorian antiquary could gather about rings: betrothal and mourning, poison rings and papal rings, the superstitions attached to every stone, and the rings dug from the presumed site of Troy.

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(on a gold ring found on Flodden Field, in the possession of George Allen, Esq., of Darlington, 1785).

I love you my sweet dear heart Go I pray you pleas my love (on a silver ring found at Somerton Castle, Lincoln, in 1805).

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