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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 8804212, member: 5682&quot;][ATTACH=full]1521041[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Celtic ring, possibly of Iceni origin, went up for auction:[ATTACH=full]1521042[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>“A 2,000-year-old gold ring believed to have been worn by a Celtic ruler could go on display in York after being sold at auction for £36,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Iron Age ring was unearthed in a field in North Yorkshire in the 1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dating back to about 100BC, it was thought to have been worn by a chieftain of the Corieltauvi tribe, which ruled parts of what are now the Midlands and Yorkshire before the Roman invasion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ring&#039;s distinctive abstract design has been linked to the Iceni tribe, which once ruled a large part of modern day East Anglia.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is thought it could have ended up in what is now Yorkshire as part of a treaty between feuding tribes.”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63660018" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63660018" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63660018</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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