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A rare and precious ring has been discovered during archaeological excavation by the National History Museum in the citadel of the mediaeval fortress Kokaliansku Urvich, the National Archaeological Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Science said on July 11.
The find was made in grave Νο 9, dug into the floor of a mediaeval burial church, directly into the rock.
Preliminary observations have led to the theory that the ring was the property of an aristocrat who lived in the second half of the 14th century.
The eagle depicted is a symbol of the royal power at Veliko Turnovo during the Middle Ages.
This suggests that the ring may have belonged to one to the family of the Bulgarian king Ivan Alexander...
So far, 12 graves have been discovered, four of which were well marked. Two of the graves were robbed in the 16th c., judging by the fragments of a silver adornment in the heap above it, the institute said.
The researchers believe that the ring was on the hand of the departed and that the rosette on it symbolizes continuity and ancestral memory.
Here is the link.
Archaeology: Rare and precious ring found at mediaeval fortress site in Bulgaria – The Sofia Globe
I'm often amazed how many rings are out there to be found. You can find them everywhere
Of course, there are some places where you can find more. And there are some places where you can find more expensive rings, and some places where you can find older rings. But you can find rings almost anywhere.
I've said this before, but the first time I detected an old trail in a woods in West Virginia, I found a gold ring. People told me there was nothing to be found there. But there it was. It was a 1940s high school class ring.
But that wasn't all. On the steep wooded hills I found more rings. They weren't gold, but there were rings. I expected rings on Miami beaches, but didn't expect so many rings in the West Viriginia hills. There weren't so many, but there were certainly more than I expected.
More rings and more expensive rings are found in South Florida. And more rings are found in the water than on the beaches.
It depends upon where you are. You'll find different kinds of rings different places. For example, in the lakes of Minnesota there weren't a lot of rings. People don't wear as much jewelry up there. At least they didn't back then. Think about it. It is cold and rings are inconvenient when you wear gloves.
There was also more silver up there than gold. I didn't find the kind of glitz in Minneso that I found in South Florida.
But individual beaches that aren't very far apart will be different too. For example, Hollywood beach would produce a good number of rings, but they are generally not as expensive as those found at som e of the Miami spots. There were more 10K rings than higher karat rings at Hollywood Beach.
I also always warn that you have to make sure you aren't passing over rings without detecting them. When I first started finding rings, I thought women didn't lose many rings. It turns out that I was using some discrimination and missing a good number of the smaller lady's rings, which are the ones with good gemstones. I found that out after I cut down the discrimination. Then I learned that women lost just as many rings as men. And the women's rings were often more valuable.
Rings won't always give great signals, depending upon a variety of factors including their position in the ground. Some can easily be missed.
Now people are wearing a lot of other kinds of rings. Sometimes steel or even silicon.
My point is that rings can surprisingly be found almost everywhere even though they will vary in quality and value depending upon the area.
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According to a WBUR report, five musket balls were unearthed near the North Bridge at Minute Man National Historical Park, marked as the site of the beginning of the Revolutionary War. On April 19, 1775, British troops opened fire on colonial militia members who were crossing the North Bridge. The militia members returned fire and charged under the orders of Major John Buttrick of Concord, routing the British troops. The recovered musket balls are thought to have been fired by the colonial militia during the short battle. “It’s incredible that we can stand here and hold what amounts to just a few seconds of history that changed the world almost 250 years ago,” said historic weapons specialist Jarrad Fuoss of Minute Man National Historical Park. For more on archaeological sites in the park...
Here is that link.
News - Colonial-Era Musket Balls Uncovered in Massachusetts - Archaeology Magazine
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The Parker’s Revenge Archaeological Project has been working at the 44-acre site in Minute Man National Historical Park to reconstruct the events and landscape of the eighteenth-century encounter. They have employed a number of archaeological methods, including excavation, geophysical survey, 3-D laser scanning, and metal detection. Relying on the principles associated with battlefield archaeology, researchers are using retrieved musket balls, both dropped and fired, to determine the location of the combatants and the intensity of the fighting...Digs & Discoveries - Finding Parker’s Revenge - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2016
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