"J.W. Pullen Jr. is a young man, but he may never top this find.
Pullen, a 30-year-old Spotsylvania County relic hunter, got a hit from his metal detector one fall day. He began digging and, just beneath the forest soil, unearthed a gleaming object like none he'd ever seen.
It was a ring. A gold ring. And on its inner surface, it bore an inscription: 'Oct. 3'd, 1850 N.P. + A.M.H.'
Straight away, Pullen phoned buddies to share his joy at the discovery.
Since that day last autumn, he's spent days researching what that date and those initials mean--an inquiry that's taken him to record rooms in Richmond and Cumberland County, west of the capital. "
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