A special DEUS easter egg

[Hauptmann aD]

There was a rainy weekend, and my spouse told me "You have to get some sand, our granddaughter is coming."
Well, I didn't like it, but had to go anyway. (On Sunday late afternoon!)
Arrived at the sandpit and filled the washing bowl. Rain almost stopped by now, I had taken my detector with me and near the sandpit was a 5th century graveyard located.
Of course, already emptied in last century by archaeologists and later by a multitude of detectorists, so I didn*t expect much more than some fresh air walk.
So it was almost unexpected as I dug out some piece of a fibula - but what do we do to make our archaeologists happy.


Time went away and the time came to return to the car. Less than 20 meters from the street another signal. Grabbing the dirt felt already a little bit heavier than normal - and then there was it - a fine piece of wire. (You can bet I had a long planned date with my archaeologist the next day and it went away.)




And while I was looking for the remains of the wire piece, I found that nice livery button.


Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

 

[jim tn]

Best greetings back at you. Like that livery button and real curious about that gold wire. Let us know about it when you do. HH jim tn

 

[laplander]

Your gold piece looks like one of these in my opinion, fantastic find congrats !

 

[Ronstar]

So what are they??? I know one can get gold rope for jewelry making but what would a bunch of those be for??? Curious minds need to know…..

 

[The Lost Ring]

Nice hunt, nice finds. I think you should keep finding.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds I believe a lot of gold was made in a chain form to avoid taxes and tariffs as it was then called “jewelry “I know that’s the case with a lot of the Spanish chains found on wrecks..
Mark

 

[laplander]

The link didn't keep the info with the picture I posted. I think it is Celtic ring money. Rings were formed from gold as well as bronze and were actually used as currency by the Celts and other populations. The time period would be Bronze age {1200 bc} foreword. An astonishing find!
HH Jeff

 

[Hauptmann aD]

This golden ring was either jewelry (the slightly pointed end piece could hint in that direction) or a way to keep material in a form which allowed the gold smith to take pieces from it as needed (the broken end could be a hint for this theory, but this could also be from being worked in the ground).

Definitely jewelry was this former ring from gold wire which I found in 2017, on Easter Monday with the Deus.


Only the right side end is still in original form, the other spirals have been pulled apart by the plough.
This piece is dated back into Bronze age.

But believe it or not - most of the wires I find are the usual scrap pieces.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf