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My day-job brings archaeological story to the headlines and inspires comedy!
Forgive me a little aside here, but I’m feeling a little proud about this.
I first started working with the Vyne, a National Trust property in Hampshire, about 18 months ago. On my first visit, one of the objects that most interested me (apart from the truncheons stored in the ante-chapel to impose the will of the aristocracy on the peasants) was a fourth century gold ring, said to have been one of Tolkien’s inspirations for the ring that features in his famous books.
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