An amateur detectorist has flora what is believed to endure i of the most meaning archaeological finds inwards Somerset's recent history.
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| The 1,800-year-old gilt Roman signet scream flora past times an amateur metallic detectorist inwards Somerset [Credit: BBC/Apex] |
Experts at the British Museum are soundless to assess the scream merely it is idea to appointment from 200 to 300 AD.
The money was flora at the same site where Mr Massey too friends flora a Roman lead-lined coffin inwards November.
Mr Massey, who is share of the Detecting for Veterans group, uncovered sixty other Roman coins on sun earlier he flora what he idea was his start gilt coin. It turned out to endure the the 48g (1.7oz) ring.
Mr Massey said he believes the site may convey i time housed a "very high condition Roman villa".
"There's charge of figures floating nearly [for the value of the ring] merely we're interested inwards the villa, who's lived in that place too where they've come upwardly from too who the soul was that wore this ring," he said.
Ciorstaidh Hayward-Trevarthen, finds liaison officeholder for South West Heritage Trust, said "There are a span of gilt rings of that kind of appointment from Somerset merely they're non common. Gold is... an indication that the possessor is fairly wealthy."
Source: BBC News Website [August 02, 2018]
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