300 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



5. Silver, plain hoop, inscribed on the inside Love God. Greatest external 

 diameter | of an inch ; weight 4 dwts. 5 grs. (Dawson Collection, 127.) 



6. Thick silver hoop, ornamented with conventional patterns ; engraved 

 on the inside with the motto : KEEPE * FAITH * TILL * DEATH. Greatest 

 external diameter 1 inch ; weight 4 dwts. 11 grs. 



7. White metal broad hoop, decorated with a plain border at each edge 

 and vertical lines between. It is broken. Diameter | of an inch; weight 



2 dwts. 



8. Silver, a broad, flat hoop, with incised diamond and line patterns, each 

 of the diamond patterns having a small cross within it. The inside is 

 engraved with a pentagon followed by the letters TEFWHFORFWFR IK. It 

 is tempting to read the first word as a blundered form of true or truth for ever. 

 This ring is possibly amuletic, judging by the pentagon which appears at 

 the commencement of the legend, and which usually had a magical signifi- 

 cance. It is a palimpsest, the present letters having been apparently engraved 

 over a former inscription. Greatest external diameter |- of an inch ; weight 



3 dwts. 8 grs. 



9. White metal, thin ornamented hoop, broken and roughly soldered. 

 Diameter f of an inch ; weight 23 grs. 



10. Silver, a plain hoop divided into sections and inscribed on the outside 



Greatest external diameter | of an inch ; weight 1 dwt. 21^grs. 



11. Described only as "broken in three places." (This has not been 

 identified.) 



12. Silver, hoop ornamented with oblong bosses. Greatest external 

 diameter j-£ of an inch ; weight 1 dwt. 3 grs. (Dawson Collection, 130.) 



13. Silver, hoop much broken and roughly repaired; two hands clasping 

 a heart surmounted by a crown. Greatest external diameter f of an inch ; 

 weight 1 dwt. 23i grs. 



14. Silver (?), ornamental open-work hoop. Greatest external diameter 

 \ of an inch ; weight 3 dwts. 23J grs. 



15. Silver, hoop widens to form the bezel, which is divided into three 

 compartments with ornament in relief ; the centre panel has a cruciform 

 pattern, and on each side is a quatrefoil. Two rows of dots divide the panels, 

 and there are four rows of dots outside them. This ring resembles one figured 

 by Dalton (Catalogue of Finger Bings in the British Museum, p. 249, no. 1740), 

 which is described as English and assigned to the twelfth century (PI. XXYI, 

 fig. 24). Diameter f of an inch ; weight 1 dwt. 18 grs. 



16. Unidentified; it is described as "resembling very much some of the 

 silver armillae in ornamentation which does not extend to the extremities." 



