Posted on 05/28/2018 11:25:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Pensioner pals Graham Ryan and Bob Dennison, who live next to each other at Beckfoot, near Silloth, found the ring in January last year while using their metal detectors on a Maryport beach. has been declared as treasure after being examined by experts at both Tullie House in Carlisle and the British Museum in London. Mr Ryan, 73, has also been told his suggested name for the treasure - Angie's ring - has been accepted. Mr Dennison's daughter, Angie, 43, died last year... Recalling the day they found the ring, he said: "It was bitterly cold, and we just went to this site hoping to find something. Within five minutes, I had found the ring. It was in some red clay. At first, I thought it one of those ring-pulls, but an old one... I was amazed by what I was looking at. I just stood there for a little while, looking at it." The gold ring, with a garnet stone as its main feature, is in pristine condition, said Graham, who is a long-term volunteer site assistant at world famous Vindolanda Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall... "I think this ring must have belonged to someone of wealth - a woman such as a Roman commandant's wife... "Bob and I were out together, so the ring is classed as a joint find, and I suggested that it should be called Angie's Ring, because Bob lost his daughter a month previously." ...The two men hope the ring will be acquired by Maryport's Senhouse Roman Museum, which they say has expressed an interest in it... The finder of such treasure usually gets a share of its value once it has been formally acquired by a museum.
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Hehe, a true ring of power!
Drink your Ovaltine!
Very nice find!
The ring is much more valuable once it has been authenticated by the British Museum. If the museum wants to keep it, they will have to pay the finders fair market value. Their appraisals are usually very close to true market value.
That’s where I left it! It’s been driving me crazy all these centuries. You’d think losing something that you cherish gets easier over time, but it doesn’t.
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