A different sort of finger ring

I scrabbled a lot in the gravel of a dry riverbed today. Not many finds worth commenting on, but this one is a bit remarkable. It looks like a ring but it’s not, it’s a finger ring from a candle holder. I found one a few years ago and it took ages to figure it out because it’s just a small part of the whole artifact. And curiously, it’s broken in the exact same way as the other one. This is today’s find:

And this is the one I found about 5 miles away:

This is what it looked like when still attached to the candle holder.

One guy on Facebook referred to it as a ‘partifact’ or ‘partial artifact.  A word that bears repeating.

 

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