The gold ring, which has a central hexagonal cabochon sapphire with two emeralds and two garnets, was uncovered by detectorist Mark Sell, 63, in King Row, Shipdham, in 2019. Mr Sell said he was ...

“Global currency then was real gold, real silver—it was a means of trade—and so people who had it were often very well off,” she says. The ring, she adds, probably belonged to a noblema ...