johnnyi
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- Jul 4, 2009
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- minelab, white's xlt, deus xp, fisher aquanaut, white's twin box
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- Relic Hunting
I'm trying to figure out this ring thing. I went out to the edge of the marsh where I'd dug the 16th/17th century baldrick buckle and large button a couple days later. This ring was at great depth (same as the baldrick) in the red iron gravel below the gray sand and peat moss layers. The ground there is very predicatable depth-wise, and the other things pictured were at depthos constent with their age (shallower, as were the mid 1800's pins). All relics are very far from any house or structure, and are near the sea.
I'd write the ring off as possibly a candle stick holder's ring, except that it has remains of silver plating in the lines. It was very encrusted (more so than any dateable relics I've dug in the general area) and it is definately early.
It's size fits a large man's ring finger. There is a stud on the side which does not appear to be broken off, but it does look slightly splayed as though it went through metal (or the remote chance it held an ornament). The center of the outside design doesn't show well, but it is a curved depression bordered by a line on both sides.
I can't think of what could have been silver plated that would look like this and be of this age?
I'd write the ring off as possibly a candle stick holder's ring, except that it has remains of silver plating in the lines. It was very encrusted (more so than any dateable relics I've dug in the general area) and it is definately early.
It's size fits a large man's ring finger. There is a stud on the side which does not appear to be broken off, but it does look slightly splayed as though it went through metal (or the remote chance it held an ornament). The center of the outside design doesn't show well, but it is a curved depression bordered by a line on both sides.
I can't think of what could have been silver plated that would look like this and be of this age?
sorry jgas
