Featured Detected big gold Roman ring

They remind me of 16th-18th ring bands and later Austro-Hungarian rings. And of course rings from Renaissance Revival periods.

 

Overhere people still find buried treasure from the WWII period in their gardens. Not just gold and silver, but also bronze. I once saw a bronze Benin head that had just been dug up from someone's garden. The previous owner had died during the war and obviously never told anyone about the head for fear of betrayal, which would have led to the destruction of the head and prison or worse for the owner.
Bronze church bells were often buried as well.

 

Very impressive ring. Good story. Thanks for sharing

 

Degenerate art, unquote. The Scum were not in favor of modernist, expressionist, or any ethnic art other than Graeco-Roman (for confiscation) and theirs. If you could call it art. Y'all also still harvest a fair crop of ordinance from both World Wars , more's the pity.

 

There is a beautiful German novel by Alfred Andersch called "Sansibar oder der letzte Grund". It is about a group of people in Nazi Germany who flee by boat from a north German port to Sweden, a dangerous undertaking.
Among the people are a Jewish girl, a communist, and others who face persecution. But among the 'people' is also a small Expressionist statue of a reading monastery student by Ernst Barlach, my favourite sculptor. It was not only considered degenerate art, but it was also an expression of someone who studies with a critical eye and forms his own opinion, not influenced by any ideology. That made it a threat to the system, as well as degenerate.

The little student still exists and I've seen it 'in the flesh'. My heart stopped when I saw it, not only because it is perfect, but also because I had read the novel and it represented so much.
This is it:

 

I had to look up "Benin Head" because I didn't know what it was. The images are astonishing. So beautiful. I was wondering why it was dangerous to have one. It finally dawned on me. It would be tragic to melt it down. Better to repatriate it.

 

There is an elderly women at my gym with piercing blue eyes she just shared with me that she is an artist. She has sculpture's placed in the US in various places & apparently her painting go for a somewhat decent amount. I actually saw one of her sculptures years ago, done in metal and red. From what I have learned about her in the short time since meeting her is fascinating.

 

Yes, the owner was withholding precious material from the Nazis. And it was all about the bronze, not the art.
When people live under a totalitarian regime they have to be careful about things we can't even think of, and the smallest 'transgression' can cost people their lives.

 

...or send the DOJ , FBI , & Homeland , after your ass !!!

 

All my detector finds is change..

 

When I was growing up, just about everyone had family stories of ancestors burying the family silver to hide it from marauding Federal troops. It was usually claimed that a fence post or two would be pulled up and the goodies put in the bottom of the hole and the posts replaced. When the Yankees bivouacked, the fence would be torn up for firewood, and the location of the treasure was then lost to memory.

I guess it'll remain folklore until some detectorist finds a hoard of antebellum silver.

 

Or a developer does. Backhoes find all sorts of things.

 

Damn Yankees !!!!!

 

Freakin' Pinstripes indeed! (my pastor was a diehard Expos fan, while there were still Expos) I'm more APY these days - anyone playing the Yankees.

It's the bleedin' carpetbaggers that may have found all of the pre-1860 silver though.

 

we were Expos fans....until the Strike cancelled our best season in history....and robbed us of the World Series !!!!

 

Grrrr.

 

I know of at least two instances where remains of soldiers were found by backhoe at construction sites. One was reported, and archeologists investigated, recovered the remains, determined them to be a Civil War casualty, and they were reburied in a cemetery. In the other instance, they figured it would cause a massive delay in construction, and the find was never officially reported. Poor guy's under a parking lot now.

 

He's in good company. King Richard III was found under a supermarket parking lot.

I'm betting a good bunch of black cemeteries from the Civil War era or before are under Piggly Wiggly lots or county roads too. They didn't count as human when they were alive, after all.

 

Sad, tragic, but unfortunately true.