Amazing Hand Forged Ring!!!

relichunters

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So I am convinced at this is a really really old ring. They weren't always made out of sterling silver, gold and copper. I was dating at a 1890 home site which is rubble now. Over the past 6 months, found some nice items worth a few bucks, and alot of junk. Well I noticed a very large tree up in the woods on the hill about 30 - 40 feet from the home site.

I thought hey this would be a great place to find a cache! Well I think I was close. I detect on the lower side of the tree that faces the home site, and it beeped right up against the tree, about 6 inches from it. This was found at about 4 inches down.

It looks perfectly like a ring to me. It has a round base 3/4 around it, and then a flat rectangle on top, the flat piece curves around it very nicely, it seems to be a little bit bent, but it fits my middle finger perfectly, it doesn't fall off.

My dad says it's a machine part, but I don't think so. What do you all think?
 

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I don't know for sure, but that is neat. I think its a ring also, try cleaning it up a bit, might be some detail on it. :thumbsup: Good job.............Rich
 

Looks like it could be a ring. Be sure to post back when you get it cleaned up.
 

Sorry to say, but I tend to agree with your dad.
 

ramfan said:
Sorry to say, but I tend to agree with your dad.

But it's like a perfect ring shape? The older ones are 3X bigger then todays ones.
 

Take some wd-40 and a tooth brush to it.It may clean up and have some detail on the face of it..Keep diggin those relics :thumbsup:
 

i dont know, ive never seen an iron piece of jewelry before and it sure doesnt look like a comfortable fit. i would say off of a machine of some sort.
 

I doubt this is a ring. I am a jeweler that deals in antique and vintage, and this does not strike me as a style of ring that would be old. I say clean it up with steel wool and see what you have. It looks like it is iron, from the rust. That would rule it out as being a piece of jewelry.
 

relichunters said:
ramfan said:
Sorry to say, but I tend to agree with your dad.

But it's like a perfect ring shape? The older ones are 3X bigger then todays ones.

If you're already dead set on it being a ring, then don't post--just believe that it's a ring.


I agree that it's a piece off a tractor or something. Iron would RUST on the hand every time it rained!


Regards,


Buckleboy
 

Could be a one of a kind thing, where someone forged it out of iron for personal use. Or maybe it's like copper or something and is rusted?
 

copper does not rust
 

Nice find! Must be some weird soil. Looks like a water find with all the crust on it.
 

I would have to agree that it is not a ring, most of the rings that I have found from the 1800's were copper, and you have to remember back in those days the avg person was smaller than people today, not the other way around.
 

A great interesting find.
I certainly wouldn't think it's 'jewelry'.
The way the ring appears to be partly thicker along its circumference and it's general shape, seems to indicate a special purpose, rather than being a simple 'link in a chain'.
I don't know. Clean it up and let's have another look at it. :thumbsup:

Mike
 

One fifth of a brass knuckle? Cool find!
CurbdiggerCarl
 

I hope one day someone can figure it out. It has me puzzled.

What is the best way of cleaning it up, where it won't hurt it?
 

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