Now, before I go further, I have to admit that there are places around the country where you can find arrowheads, or other places where it might be possible to still find Civil War artifacts, and there are still some occasional early colonies locations (like Jamestown) that provide some trinkets of yore.
But Britain is way ahead of us when it comes to historic junk just lying around waiting for the picking-up. This account of another find is further confirmation of that observation.
‘Remarkable’ Pictish ring discovered by volunteer
"Professor of Archaeology at the university [of Aberdeen, I think], Gordon Noble, has led excavation work - funded by Historic Environment Scotland - over the last three years.
"John [last name Ralph] was digging and then came over and said ‘look what I’ve found’," Prof Noble said.
"What he handed over was truly incredible.
"We could see it was something really exciting as despite more than 1,000 years in the ground we could see glints of the possible garnet setting."
He added: "There are very few Pictish rings which have ever been discovered and those we do know about usually come from hoards which were placed in the ground deliberately for safekeeping in some way."
The ring is now with the National Museum of Scotland’s post-excavation service for analysis."
Of course, a picture of the ring is necessary. The paired image below shows it after discovery, and then after it got cleaned up.
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