To: Jet Jaguar; SunkenCiv
With the proceeds, he will be able to get his teeth whitened. (Groaner alert!)
2 posted on
03/30/2013 5:06:27 PM PDT by
Albion Wilde
("Commies out of DC!" --Raoul Deming, 1954-2013)
To: Albion Wilde
...wasn’t it a few months back that another metal detector found jewelry from the middle ages?
4 posted on
03/30/2013 5:17:08 PM PDT by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Albion Wilde
I used to work with a guy who was constantly finding really neat things with his metal detector. I know he had found and returned several class rings.
I thought it sounded like fun and in 1986 bought a nice Whites. I guess I never did get really good with it as I never found anything other than some coins, a pocket knife and a few other odds and ends. None of the coins were valuable.
5 posted on
03/30/2013 5:30:03 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: Albion Wilde
It's clear from the article that the ring was found in Yorkshire, in the north of what is today England. In the fifth century (i.e. 1,600 years ago) that area was in transition from Roman to Romanized Britons' rule. The legions left around 410. If the ring was made in (what is now) France around that time it was most likely a Briton with connections to the Continent who brought it to Yorkshire. There was no "King of France" at that time.
It is good to know that British journalists can be as historically ignorant as their American counterparts. Well, nearly.
6 posted on
03/30/2013 5:31:23 PM PDT by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: Jet Jaguar
looks more like a Queens ring... but then again, they say it's French
7 posted on
03/30/2013 5:37:22 PM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Albion Wilde
“With the proceeds, he will be able to get his teeth whitened. (Groaner alert!)”
You mean he can’t just walk into a dentist and get that done for nothing? Don’t they have free health care there?
</sarc>
9 posted on
03/30/2013 5:53:47 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Jet Jaguar
5th or 6th century? About the time the Saxons left england or shortly after.
10 posted on
03/30/2013 7:24:27 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Albion Wilde
12 posted on
03/30/2013 7:44:00 PM PDT by
Lockbar
(Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------- The New Gold)
To: Albion Wilde; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
18 posted on
03/31/2013 6:25:53 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Albion Wilde; SunkenCiv
Wow, it's in great shape. Really beautiful.
There is some speculation that after the withdrawal of the Legions York became the seat of a kingdom of Ebruac, after the Roman name for York. It collapsed in the invasions from Germany. Just because the ring was made in Gaul doesn't mean it necessarily was owned by an official located there.
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