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Hi guys, and girls.. For the last few weeks I have been waiting for a field to be rolled and seeded and today on arrival the farmer was busy doing the job in hand. After a quick chat to the landowner where by he informed me that he had a couple cold callers requesting permission to detect at the weekend, needless to say they were not successful...!! Anyway here are my finds for a few hours searching a good selection of finds with a bit of roman as well unusually for this field though. In the centre there are 2  dagger chapes with a spur rowel above. Anyway on to the main attraction up popped this superb condition bronze Merchant/Signet ring which I guess dates to 15th-16th cent ? just how it came from a ploughed field with no damage I will never know, well I expect it has been laid just out of reach until very recently. Hope you enjoy looking at it half as much as I have... oh by the way the initial letter is it a "P" or an "R" I was hoping "P" as its my initial but I'm easy Lol. 

WA ! HOOOO !!! C/S,now ain't that ring such a beautiful thing !!!
OH ! And the rest of your finds are Brilliant as well .👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Now that's a good few finds for a quick search Paul. Looks like an 'R' to me on the ring, which is an amazing find. Well done, once again.

You're just showing off now! 😂

Very nice.

Hi Celtic spikey
You really do find some great stuff and it all seems to be in amazing condition!
Well done!
Have you ever been so lucky on a Dw rally?

The Wiltshire soils are kind to coins and artefacts Jamie, compared with other counties ;) with regard to D/W rallies my finds are few and far between UNFORTUANTLY, come to that most rallies I've detected on over the years I've not done well in comparison to my own permissions but that's good for other rally detectorists, that's detecting for you Lol... ;)

Fantastic items again.

it' looks like an 'R' to me which is my first initial :)!

I find I don't do too well on rallies, mainly because I don't grid and I talk too much.....

Excellent especially the ring

Wow, that's something super special. To me, that has more of a specialist history than a coin.
Only my opinion, but a coin was manufactured to be circulated and that ring was made and engraved for just one person.
Whoever it was made for had a life and history that was unique. If only we were able to follow that journey up to the loss of the ring.
Incidentally, I think the letter is a P.
If you look at picture 4 it is almost certainly a P, and I think the embossing shows a disjointed decoration that is not connected to the inscribed letter P.
Either way, its a magnificent find. Well done

Thanks for your comment b.buoy, I agree with you on its manufacture over a coin. I shall examine the ring again! as I said I initially thought it was a P, for the reason you have highlighted  ;)

beautiful i agree it's either avoided the plough or just been out of reach t'il now.you lucky man that's lovely.

do you think it was originally a P then overtime it was changed to an R? maybe handed down on death to the person with R name? just thought i`d throw that in there.:)

Lovely finds, well done to you.

I like that idea Jay, no reason why not... ;)

Great find Paul, just if more of our finds had a protective patina on like that, looks great mate ;)

Fantastic finds, as usual. I found a medieval ecclesiastical seal recently but unfortunately, not in quite as good condition as your seal. Surprised the plough didn't have the best of it. Definitely well saved.

Appreciate all you comments guys..... ;)

Class mate ,weldone😊

Cheers Mike, haven't seen much Bling lately mate!! I don't get the chance to work beaches much.  ;)

What a great find and in such good condition, looks like a great field with the other finds as well.

well done , nice ring...... :o

Thanks for your comments guys... ;)