Rare Ring Found When Digging Up Driveway

There might be more than one reason to consider digging up your driveway and replacing it with a new one, after one lucky homeowner found a rare ring when they did just that.

Matthew Williams from Coventry had hired contractors to dig the foundations for his driveway in Mount Nod Way, but they stopped when they were about half a metre deep into the ground.

The 44-year-old told Coventry Telegraph they had discovered a rare ring, which he thinks could date as far back as the iron age.

Together with his son Dawson, Mr Williams scoured the soil for other bits of jewellery and discovered a setting that fits the ring perfectly.

“We have used a magnet on it, so we know it’s not steel or lead. It could be bronze, but we really don’t know. We were all very excited and spent most of the night looking at old jewellery online,” he told the publication.

The grey ring has a square seat in the middle where the setting would have gone and is bordered by engravings.

Mr Williams has lived at the property for more than 22 years with his wife Lindsey, daughter Lara and Dawson, but did not know they had some historical artefacts underneath their home.

Together with the ring, they also unearthed a horseshoe underneath the driveway of the 1960s’ property.

A similar ring from the iron age with a garnet stone is valued at £600 on Antiquities.co.uk, which means Mr Williams’ finding could be worth several hundreds of pounds.

If this has tempted you to get digging, call our block paving driveways specialists in Telford today.