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Rings drawn inside one another, incised as a protective mark.
Also known as: Ring mark, Circle within a circle
Two or more circles drawn about a common centre, cut into timber or stone near openings. Among the ritual protection marks Historic England records, and one whose simplicity makes context essential to reading it at all.
Two or more circles inscribed about a common centre, cut into timber or masonry, recorded among ritual protection marks in historic buildings.
England
Interpreted, where protective intent is inferred, on the same reasoning as other endless figures: a closed line offering no opening for harm to pass. As with the hexafoil the reading depends on position rather than on the mark itself.
A simple form with many non-ritual uses. Context does the identifying work.
Two or more circles of different sizes drawn one inside another about the same centre point.
Both are ritual protection marks recorded in English historic buildings.