600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
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600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
A 600-year-old gold ring found in a Somerset farmer's field has sold at auction for thousands over its guide price. The rare Saint George ring has gone under the hammer for £7,000, double what it was valued at. Experts believe it belonged to a nobleman from the early 16th century....................
http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/201 ... thousands/
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/632893
http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/201 ... thousands/
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/632893
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
We live in hope Phil Hopefully there is one similar lurking in a field in Devon as well
What a cracking find though
Another piece of history saved by a detectorist
What a cracking find though
Another piece of history saved by a detectorist
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Love to find one myself Pete.
One of our members found this beauty a few years ago;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/403956
One of our members found this beauty a few years ago;
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
WOW another stunnerPhilD wrote:Love to find one myself Pete.
One of our members found this beauty a few years ago;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/403956
The nearest I have come is with the gold ring below found last year which recently came back from the BM (treasure process) but only to say it is not classed as treasure as they cannot say when it was made and it may have even been a mount for a stone as the inside is concave, although there are no obvious marks where attachments for the mount would have been - strange one.
I was hoping it was going to be identified as Medieval but they had nothing similar to compare it with at the BM.
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Very odd, looks like the marks were deliberately put there.
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Yes it has small crescents all along the outside edge, which were stamped in by hand as a design.PhilD wrote:Very odd, looks like the marks were deliberately put there.
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Awesome finds there, well done to the finders
Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
what a welcome change instead of being called a treasure hunter its nice to see him being called a history enthusiast, a stunning find and well done to you lads some cracking finds
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
I'm probably way off mark here but this one on PAS has crescents in line;dig-it-pete wrote:WOW another stunnerPhilD wrote:Love to find one myself Pete.
One of our members found this beauty a few years ago;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/403956
The nearest I have come is with the gold ring below found last year which recently came back from the BM (treasure process) but only to say it is not classed as treasure as they cannot say when it was made and it may have even been a mount for a stone as the inside is concave, although there are no obvious marks where attachments for the mount would have been - strange one.
I was hoping it was going to be identified as Medieval but they had nothing similar to compare it with at the BM.
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/192379
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
I would have said those markings would have made it very early Medi....and the one above is Viking.... still what do we know! lol
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Yes I have to agree with you Phil the crescent markings are similar but my ring has been seen by the 'Experts' at the BM who deemed it to be post Medieval and not 'Treasure'. I have include excerpts from the letter from the BM to the Coroner and the report on the ring from the BM.PhilD wrote:I'm probably way off mark here but this one on PAS has crescents in line;dig-it-pete wrote:WOW another stunnerPhilD wrote:Love to find one myself Pete.
One of our members found this beauty a few years ago;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/403956
The nearest I have come is with the gold ring below found last year which recently came back from the BM (treasure process) but only to say it is not classed as treasure as they cannot say when it was made and it may have even been a mount for a stone as the inside is concave, although there are no obvious marks where attachments for the mount would have been - strange one.
I was hoping it was going to be identified as Medieval but they had nothing similar to compare it with at the BM.
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/192379
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Re: 600 year old ring found in Somerset field sold....
Thanks for the info Pete sais la vie.
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