The 'jaw-dropping' ring, originally unearthed in a field in 1994, could now fetch up to £30,000.
A "jaw-dropping" gold ring thought to have been worn by a Celtic leader 2,000 years ago is to be auctioned off - after spending nearly three decades in a collector's cupboard.The ring dates back to 100BC, decades before the Roman invasion of Britain.
A metal detectorist found the ring in Knaresborough in the 1990s and sold it to its current owner for a few hundred pounds. "I'm in my 60s, I don't know how long I'll be around," he said. "I thought it really wanted a good home so my children don't have to figure out what it do with it."The ring's owner initially believed it to be Roman or Anglo Saxon, but when he took it to be valued at the British Museum, experts told him its true age."It's really quite a mysterious thing. We will never know for sure who owned it but it was probably a powerful Celtic chieftain.
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