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Kristina Killgrove

'I did a bit of a dance': Detectorist finds gold 'mourning ring' engraved with skull and date in UK field

A gold band with a small human skull in an oval depression.

An amateur metal detectorist in England has unearthed a macabre piece of history: an 18th-century gold band with an inlaid enamel skull decoration.

The ring, which was found in a field in Norfolk on England's east coast, is linked to a member of the British nobility whose name and date of death are inscribed on the inside of the golden band.

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