wy-elm-ot

Updated: May 2, 2025

In the centre is a tree; on one side of it the letters WY, and on the other OT. Supposing the tree to be an elm, the name reads Wy-elm-ot, or Wylmot. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries religious figures were frequently engraved on rings. Christopher bearing the Saviour on his shoulder across an arm of the sea, in accordance with the old legendary history of this saint.

F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt - Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places: Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting,: Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture