Roman Villa Site producing Bronze, Silver and Gold

[Westfront]

Roman Villa Site producing Bronze, Silver and 1700 year old Roman Gold Ring

Today i went back to the Villa Site where i found the Wolfhead Pendant. It was plowed yesterday and i had time till 5.00pm today. I was detecting the field while the farmer was planting potatoes...
It was well worth the effort. Still have to dig nails, the site is far from being clean. So lots of nails, lead, some scrappies, one Denarius, a beautiful condition Dupondius(?) (not identified yet), found on the last row for the day and as nearly the last signal 20 metres from the truck the golden Ring. Other finds were a french Regimental button, roman sandal nail, roman bronze nails, one decorated, a first for me.
I talked a bit to the farmer, thanked him for his cooperation, showed the finds from the day and was invited to come back after harvest.
Here are the pics:

 

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[Breezie]

OUTSTANDING find! Congratulations on finding it and for making a very well deserved BANNER! Awesome Breezie

 

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[TempUserName]

Yeah, congrats on banner. (voted 4 the ring several days ago.)

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

gorgeous ring! well deserved banner!

 

[NJ Marty]

Wow, finding roman yellow should always make the banner and glad this did. We all have our forte and mine is colonial american history, but I know damn well this is a super rare find. What might the carat be of the roman gold? 22 or over?

 

[wheatfinder13]

Nice coins to me the three in the pic are Julian,constantius ii, and Constantine. But silver searcher and crusader already said that

 

[63bkpkr]

The color of the ring and the side appearance of the tight pinches show no splitting, this leads me to think it is a fairly high carat value and therefore soft. What a fine bunch of finds and what a fun post. Thank you for sharing and for the excitement..............63bkpkr

 

[Tnmountains]

Beautiful ring. Amazing the detail after all the years. I am sure that was a prized item of high craftsmanship and not worn by many. Congratulations. It will be a center piece in your display case I am sure

 

[garryson]

Congrats on your gold ring.

 

[Westfront]

Thanks all!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Any markings on that gold ring...?? That's high karat for sure, I'd say 22-24k
Outstanding hunting !!
Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[pepperj]

What a beautiful ring and the coinage are in great shape.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Well it was long overdue for this to make Banner. Funny how if it'd had a diamond on it, it would've been up there already. I was hoping this would be on the finds banner. Eye appeal seems to count for a lot in things making it up there. A plain gold band with a crude face on it doesn't look the way some bling does, regardless of the age.

I'm glad this made it up top. We see MANY more gold coins than Roman Gold Rings. Hell, we even see more Celtic Gold Coins than Roman Gold Rings!

That is one AMAZING find, my friend.

Best Wishes,

Buckleboy

 

[AlexanderHun]

Hats off to our German friends! I visited many of the Roman villa, but unfortunately I did not find gold, congratulations!

 

[moramoina]

AMAZING!!!!!!

 

[moramoina]

Westfront you make my heart beat faster!! Congratulation and thanks for sharing!!!

 

[chkn]

Fantastic ring. The gold looks so pure!! Many fantastic finds. I have to laugh that in all the antiquities, a wheat penny! I want to know what year? Bravo!! Is it this or thumbs down when in Rome?!

 

[yaxthri]

Wow great finds, very jeallous...
Congrats on the banner, well deserved

 

[Joe hunter]

Very nice congratulations .the wheats would be a banner for me so far this year

 

[birdman]

Very well deserved banner!!!

 

[TORRERO]

Just as an interesting note, has anyone ever considered the "why" factor in some of this stuff we dig on a strickly "Roman" site ?

I used to Metal detect in Spain, and I would be on a purely Roman site and dig a Spanish 2 Reals, or something nice like that
but nothing else from the period of the Real. Or a military button but nothing else other than Roman coins or artifacts.

It seemed to me that there never were Spanish people living a this place, considering that we never dug any of the accoutrements of daily life..... no buckles or bells or pieces of trash that could be linked to the 1600s or 1700s or 1800s
and yet suddenly a silver 2 Real would come out of the ground, and I would stand there and ask why it would be there with nothing else...

I got to thinking about this and my reasoning was .......
What do you think ?