Two Gold Rings

It was a cold day back in November 2014 that I was on my new permission near a manor house in Dorset. I was with my then detecting partner Dodger, who has sadly since passed away, so he never heard the end to this story.

- Clive Smith, Dorset

This was the second time that we had detected on this particular field. After talking to the farmer, I found out that the field had never been deep-ploughed because of the very stony nature of the soil. It was about mid-morning and I had already unearthed some interesting finds (though nothing very old) when I had a faint, but good, two-way signal from my XP Deus. I dug down about seven inches and still nothing, so I decided to use my pinpointer, at which point I found there was a good solid signal.

I carefully removed the soil and there at the bottom of the hole, some nine inches down was what appeared to be a lump of gold. I carefully removed it from the hole and walked across to Dodger with the gold in the now slightly sweaty palm of my hand. He was digging a hole at the time and I said to him “I have just found a bit of gold.” He looked at me rather doubtfully.

I dropped my find into his hand and as I did so it separated into two beautiful medieval gold rings. The smaller of the two rings had been nestled inside the larger one. The smaller ring was decorated