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English: Gold ring, possibly dating from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, consisting of ten joined plaques or beads, five circular and five rectangular. The ring is flattened and distorted. The circular plaques are formed of raised domes with an eight-pointed star on a cross-hatched background within a circular border. The rectangular plaques are inscribed with a single letter in black-letter script, surrounded by a sunburst of triangles with a rectangular border. The letters are difficult to read, but perhaps are caret, meaning 'absent' in Latin. The e is damaged and particularly hard to read. The rectangular plaques are hollow, with a cavity visible behind the damaged e and all the undersides pierced with a hole. The interior of the hoop is undecorated; one of the circular plaques is punctured.

Although a direct comparison has not been found for this object, it is possible that it is a decade ring used for devotional purposes due to the ten beads, which correspond with other decade rings. For a comparable example in type, though not in style, see ESS-2979A8 (2004 T244).