he gold ring's red stone offers clues to its ownership.Image credit: The National Museum
Posted on 02/22/2024 9:41:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An amateur metal detectorist in Denmark has unearthed a rare gold ring that may have belonged to a previously unknown royal family with ties to the Kingdom of France.
Lars Nielsen discovered the large, ornately decorated gold ring, set with a red semiprecious stone, while exploring Emmerlev, a parish in Southern Jutland, Denmark, according to a translated statement. The ring dates to the fifth or sixth century...
Researchers at the National Museum of Denmark determined that the piece of jewelry has much "historical significance" and may have belonged to local royalty connected to the Merovingians, a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled over parts of what is now France, Belgium and Germany between the fifth and eighth centuries...
The ring's red stone also offers clues to its ownership, since similar stones are well-known symbols of power in the Nordics, "while the elite gold rings of the Merovingians are typically set with a coin or a plaque, like a signet ring," the researchers said in the statement. "This shows that the ring was to serve as a symbol of power in the Nordics."
"Perhaps the princely family in Emmerlev had control over an area between Ribe [a town in Southwest Jutland] and Hedeby [a Danish Viking Age trading settlement in what is now Germany] and thus secured trade in the area," Pommergaard said.
The ring's location was a few miles away from previously found artifacts — including a collection of gold and silver coins, pottery and first-century golden horns — leading experts to think the item wasn't lost but rather intentionally placed in the area.
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he gold ring's red stone offers clues to its ownership.Image credit: The National Museum
hmm...... gold ring
Lars
Emmerlev
Jutland
Merovingians
Ribe
Hedeby
Pommergaard
golden horns
hobits, orks and trolls ...... I saw the movie .... I think they wrote book about it
During this first episode, Tracy Borman, who is the Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces traveled to the site where it had been found in the field behind a stone wall, within site of Shurland Hall on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. Further research done on the ring shows that Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn visited Shurland Hall, stopping there for three days on their way to Calais. Henry was known for taking many people with him when he traveled, especially members of his privy council...two members being Anne's father Thomas Boleyn, and her brother George. Henry loved to hunt, and it's possible that on one of the mornings he was at Shurland Hall, he decided to go hunting in the field behind the house, and that Thomas and/or George were with him, and could have lost the ring.
Tudor gold signet ring linked to Boleyns on display at Hampton Court Palace
Ooh, I’ll have to track down that show.
Meanwhile, here’s the topic about the Boleyn artifact.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4127984/posts
Thanks for the link. I don’t know how I missed that one either.
I’d forgotten about it until you mentioned the event itself, a faint little bell rang...
Inside The Tower of London S06E01 - British Royal Documentary
Cool!
A lot of speculation going on over a single ring.
Makes for a good story but there is really no evidence to back it up.
The ting itself is evidence. To a trained eye backed by years of education and experience some details might tell them quite a bit.
Still the idea still involve a lot of speculation.
One can only wonder if Merovingian owner was an ancestor of the later French membership from Rennes-le chateau and the Prieure de Sion.
Or educated analysis.
Lars Nielson. Isn't that like "Joe Smith" in Denmark?
Or educated BS.
Trying to make a name for themselves.
Do you have a lot of graduate credit in archeology? I mean, there are subtleties in various areas that one needs to learn a lot about before one can make pronouncements or meaningfully criticize.
There is also a lot of personal gain to be made.
There is in some finding a lot of politics.
Probably same is true of Neil Larsson.
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