TimesDispatch.com | Archaeologist promises he'll turn over discovered ring

This continuing story is very strange. Archeologist finds 16th century English ring while digging at the site of a major Indian village on Hatteras Island. Ring is an amazing artifact from the Lost Colony. Archeologist takes ring home, retires and keeps saying he will bring it back but doesn't, Here is the latest saga.

TimesDispatch.com | Archaeologist promises he'll turn over discovered ring: "Archaeologist promises he'll turn over discovered ring

The Associated Press

Jan 14, 2006

NAGS HEAD, N.C. -- A retired East Carolina University archaeologist has promised to give up a 16th-century gold signet ring from a dig in Buxton on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

If David Phelps doesn't produce the ring by the end of the month, the school will consider how to force its delivery, an official said.

Phelps, who has had the ring since 1998, had assured the school that he would bring the ring and other artifacts from his digs at the site of the Croatan chiefdom to the university in December."