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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2244376, member: 5833&quot;]I did look at those sections on the PAS site.&nbsp; It is the construction &amp; heft of the ring that indicate to me it is post-Medieval, oldest.&nbsp; I have no issue with a base metal, although the little green spots now have me wondering if it is indeed brass or bronze under an incrustation that was making me think iron.&nbsp; Depending on the conditions of soil acidity, moisture, etc., it might not have taken 500 years to develop that degree of crustiness.</p><p><br /></p><p>He does not mention how far down he had to dig, &amp; what are the odds that your very first find with a metal detector would be this ring, unless he means first find that wasn&#039;t a bottle cap?&nbsp; Not sure his whole story holds up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still think the ring could be a lot more recent.&nbsp; I have a cameo ring that is built in a very similar way that is 20th century.&nbsp; The device on the detector ring looks like a weird mix of an impression taken from something else, embellished with deeply incised lines that don&#039;t make a lot of sense to me.&nbsp; I have a Georgian attempt at making a ring meant to look like an antiquity sitting on my desk right now.&nbsp; It was never buried, but if it had been, the brass would have become heavily oxidized pretty quickly.&nbsp; I have a lot of doubts about that ring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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