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Another once-in-a-lifetime find!
Hello friends,
I'm sure you are sick of me posting all these finds but I have to share them with someone! I went back to meet my friends in the Swabian Alps again on Saturday. It's a 3 hour drive and worth every minute! We went back to the Roman/Celtic hotspot that we had detected twice before. It's quite a hike to get there but in ancient times it was a Roman crossroads and people obviously spent a lot of time there (maybe camping or waiting for escort?). My German friends have found over 100 bronze fibulas, dozens of silver coins, and even a silver bracelet.
We spent 9 hours going up and down the hills hoping for high tones. We were making some good finds but the place has been hammered so hard it's difficult to find anything big or loud. I was up on the slope and got a faint high tone signal that repeated in both directions. It was so faint that it didn't register any numbers on my XP Deus. But I KNEW it was the best signal I had gotten all day and I was excited at what it might be. I dug down about 6 inches into the rocky soil and popped out a small iron looking ring. The kind that looks like rusty horse tack. As I examined it, turning it over and over in my hand I began to see it had an irregular shape like a finger ring. I rubbed it a bit and silver shined through! I was shouting to the other guys and they couldn't believe I had found a Roman silver ring from the 2nd or 3rd century! It had such a thick crust of iron around it. I'm guessing it was lying close to a nail or some other piece of small iron and over 1,800 years the iron leached onto the silver and formed a conglomerate. Once I got it cleaned up I could see an image inscribed on the ring. It looks like a tree to me. My German friend told me he thinks it's a cedar tree because these had special meaning to the Romans (reminds them of home maybe?).
