It was a cold day back in November 2014 that I was on my new permission near a manor house in Dorset. I was with my then detecting partner Dodger, who has sadly since passed away, so he never heard the end to this story.
This was the second time that we had detected on this particular field. After talking to the farmer, I found out that the field had never been deep-ploughed because of the very stony nature of the soil. It was about mid-morning and I had already unearthed some interesting finds (though nothing very old) when I had a faint, but good, two-way signal from my XP Deus. I dug down about seven inches and still nothing, so I decided to use my pinpointer, at which point I found there was a good solid signal.
I carefully removed the soil and there at the bottom of the hole, some nine inches down was what appeared to be a lump of gold. I carefully removed it from the hole and walked across to Dodger with the gold in the now slightly sweaty palm of my hand. He was digging a hole at the time and I said to him “I have just found a bit of gold.” He looked at me rather doubtfully.
I dropped my find into his hand and as I did so it separated into two beautiful medieval gold rings. The smaller of the two rings had been nestled inside the larger one. The smaller ring was decorated
This story is from the January 2019 edition of Treasure Hunting magazine.
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