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Hello all...
I am not going to bore you with a long story, if you have been following my recent posts you know were I have been detecting and the finds that have come from this area
I started the evening recovering my digging spade that I left here Sunday, it was lying right were I had left it
managed a couple of Medieval spindle whorls and a few bits of lead, then another Medieval hammered coin of Elizabeth1 (1558-1603) half groat.
Later on in the evening I moved further down the road to a area that has produced Roman coins, again I had a further four bronze coins but the going was hard.
The area was becoming shorter by the minute so I moved to the slopes of the spoil heaps and this is were I found my best find, a nice crisp signal and I was flipping over the sandy soil, at first I couldn't see what had given the signal, then I glanced a glint of yellow in a small piece of soil, I picked it up and right in-front of me was a small Gold Ring
the colour gave it away as old, a deep buttery yellow Gold.
The ring is very small (13mm) and obviously made for a child, I am 99% certain that this ring is Roman
and was probably made specially for the wearer.
This ring unfortunately falls under the treasure act and I will have to declare it
any way have a look at the pictures if there are any questions I will try and answer 
SS...Updated... It's now two weeks since I found the ring, and I have just had the ID back by the UK Finds Data Base here's what it says, A Roman Gold finger ring 1st-4th Century, the shank has a broad,flat cross-section that tapers from the front to back. At the front there is an oval bezel made from reposse worked sheet-metal; it depicts a full-faced portraite in releif, surrounded by a raised border. The depiction is unknown, though the subject is almost certainly classical
I am not going to bore you with a long story, if you have been following my recent posts you know were I have been detecting and the finds that have come from this area
I started the evening recovering my digging spade that I left here Sunday, it was lying right were I had left it
managed a couple of Medieval spindle whorls and a few bits of lead, then another Medieval hammered coin of Elizabeth1 (1558-1603) half groat.Later on in the evening I moved further down the road to a area that has produced Roman coins, again I had a further four bronze coins but the going was hard.
The area was becoming shorter by the minute so I moved to the slopes of the spoil heaps and this is were I found my best find, a nice crisp signal and I was flipping over the sandy soil, at first I couldn't see what had given the signal, then I glanced a glint of yellow in a small piece of soil, I picked it up and right in-front of me was a small Gold Ring
the colour gave it away as old, a deep buttery yellow Gold.The ring is very small (13mm) and obviously made for a child, I am 99% certain that this ring is Roman
and was probably made specially for the wearer.This ring unfortunately falls under the treasure act and I will have to declare it
any way have a look at the pictures if there are any questions I will try and answer SS...Updated... It's now two weeks since I found the ring, and I have just had the ID back by the UK Finds Data Base here's what it says, A Roman Gold finger ring 1st-4th Century, the shank has a broad,flat cross-section that tapers from the front to back. At the front there is an oval bezel made from reposse worked sheet-metal; it depicts a full-faced portraite in releif, surrounded by a raised border. The depiction is unknown, though the subject is almost certainly classical 
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they obviously mean that the ring could fit any time scale that the Romans occupied Britain, there must be a lot of Roman relics that fit the same criteria, especially unusually items, I have seen Roman rings similar to mine apart from the face bit, perhaps this type as you say, is not that well known, or even unique 
