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Russell, S. (2026, September 18). Medieval gold ring discovered on April Fool’s Day to be sold at auction. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jim-friends-gold-objects-silver-b1297498.html
Russell, Sam. “Medieval gold ring discovered on April Fool’s Day to be sold at auction.” Evening Standard, 18 Sept. 2026, https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jim-friends-gold-objects-silver-b1297498.html.
Russell, Sam. “Medieval gold ring discovered on April Fool’s Day to be sold at auction.” Evening Standard, September 18, 2026. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jim-friends-gold-objects-silver-b1297498.html.
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On April Fool’s Day 2024, engineering lecturer Aaron Pizzey and his friend James Race found an extremely rare 14th-century Medieval gold seal ring worth over £10,000 in a ploughed field near Stoke Ash in West Suffolk. The discovery came after two fruitless days of searching due to a faulty metal detector headset that Pizzey was about to discard. Using their Minelab Nox 800 detectors, they made the find just 30 seconds into searching a third field on April Fool’s Day. The ring is engraved with the image of a griffin and inscribed in lombardic script as “GRIFFVnMATILIELEMATILIOVR,” possibly translating to "griffin Matilda, maternal countess," suggesting it belonged to Matilda of Lancaster, who became Countess of Ulster. The ring will be auctioned by Noonans Mayfair.
