I've recently come across a copper finger ring, been told by a historian it's Anglo-Saxon. It's solid with a heavy patine an oval bezel with a ring-dot pattern. The only pictures I have i'll post but they are pretty bad as it's very hard to get a good look at without handling.

So would it be viking? or a trade piece? I know nothing of these items! :confused:

This is it with my silver twist from Danegeld. It's not a bad size either and the band is well intact.

I'll look to take more soon with better shots of the bezel, pattern, and band.

Where was it found? What was it found with?

It was found by my dog who went off chasing rabbits near the marshes and came back with a mouth-full of..dirt mud and this. (He always carries his duck comforter when we go out and he threw up the rest of the mud with this beauty)

Tell him to bring back something more fun next time, a sword perhaps. :lol:

Yes sorry, i live in walton-on-the-naze near the aptly named 'viking way' (They did some digs there in the 50's or so I think) indeed he did there was a bronze ring from Germany around the 14th century which looked similar to mine but the only evidence he gave to tell me it's not a fake is the inside is really worn..which means nothing to be honest except it either been ground down/sanded or worn and taken off lots.

My old dog once dug up a human femur near a battle site not far from here but nothing ever came of it and obviously I did not keep it...I have my own femur..

So i'll definitely get it back? Not overly fussed but I am rather fond of it and would rather wear it than see it in a museum with a few dozen like it. After you've seen one you've seen most haha.

I don't think it is a fake since your dog dug it up and not some dude on ebay. The only question is whether it really is as old as you have been told.

Just so you know, I don't go sifting through my dog's sick ALL the time. Only when something 'shiny' appears :p As for the paper-i'm not sure the last we thing we want is an army of tourists with metal detectors swooping down on our backwaters.

Excellent thank you, then i'll take it to get looked at as soon as possible!

Hi,
....and don't trust anybody who sounds to be "the man who knows" : I've thrown a 2500 year old bronze spiral arm ring to the trash can when I was young, just because our neighbour the local "historian" told me it was just a worthless "copper spring" (!!!) :blush:
When I've seen the same in the county museum, I was mad!