A guest on the Antiques Roadshow was left shocked after he discovered the worth of a ring he found lying around his back garden.
British jewellery specialist, Geoffrey Munn, left the man blown away when it was discovered that the ring was made of solid gold and was Medieval.
The piece, which was labelled "extremely valuable", even had to be reported to the local museums due to its sheer historic significance.
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The guest on the show explained that he found the ring in some tomatoes in the dirt and so he picked it up for a better look.
He said: "I thought it was from a Christmas cracker but I put it in my pocket and when I took it out of my pocket at home it was nice and shiny.
"I thought it was obviously not out of a cracker and I had it for a few years before taking it to a jeweller in Cheltenham."
The jeweller reportedly thought the ring was a Victorian copy of a Roman ring, "so we have kept it in a draw at home ever since then," he told Geoffrey.
The specialist then gave his guest some fantastic news on how this "marvellous" gold ring ended up in the ground.
He explained: "In actual fact, it came out of the ground the way that it went into the ground.
"It went into the ground 600 or 700 hundred years ago."
The guest was gobsmacked and replied: "Oh golly!"
Geoffrey said the ring must have laid there for hundreds of years waiting for someone to "bring it into the light again".
"Gold never tarnishes, it remains the same, and the tiny stone at the top of the ring remains the same because it's a sapphire," he added.
"It's travelled across Arabia and towards Europe and was traded and set into this ring.
"It's a type of ring often worn by men of the cloth because a substruct of Christianity was old magic and men of the cloth could afford these things."
Geoffrey said he thought it was most unusual for the guest to have discovered it without the aid of a metal detector.
"You were just gardening and you accidentally pulled out a Medieval ring and this is enviable beyond belief, this is terribly exciting," he exclaimed.
The guest had an obligation to contact local museums about the find, now he knew its historical significance, to document it.
"This is an extremely valuable ring,” Geoffrey revealed, “there is precedent for this sort of ring fetching £8,000 and £9,000 (€9,500 - €10,500) at auction.”
"Good God," the guest replied in disbelief over the ring's value, "wow, I thought it would be a few hundred pounds in scrap gold."
Meanwhile, the crowd who were waiting patiently to hear the valuation, were as shocked by the item's staggering worth.
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