While searching a field in southwest England, metal detectorists stumbled on the "find of a lifetime": two gold-and-garnet objects dating ... was an Anglo-Saxon ring. But as fellow detectorist ...

John Ralph said it was a "real thrill" to dig up the kite-shaped ring, which has a garnet or red glass centre, at Burghead Fort. Image: Pic: University of Aberdeen Although known as a Pictish site ...

"The item displays clear links to the significant gold and garnet cloisonné metalwork from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Staffordshire Hoard." Pocklington District Heritage Trust, which has ...