ring Laucherthal

  welding steel hammered, stainless steel inside ring, eopxy, Bean ore from my hometown Laucherthal in Germany (thanks to my parents for sending it!), crushed hematite iron ore 
ring size 10

I will offer a new kind of custom rings on my webpage soon.
People can send me personal stuff to embed in their new ring.

Bohnerz, Bean Ore (limonite) from Germany
Around the town where I grew up you can find limonite (Ochre)  in form of small balls everywhere on the fields. You just need to bow down and collect it fro the surface of the earth. The Celtic people living in the area fro around 800 BC on already used this iron ore, and they exported the iron they made from it to Rome and Greece. Greek pottery was found on the fields around a big old Celtic city. The Romans later used the ore also, and when they were gone, the Germanic Alemans did the same. Later the prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen founded one of the first steel mills with a furnace there, and the town growing around it was called Laucherthal after the river Lauchert (1708 AC). The former steel mill still exists. It produces high tech metal casting and other stuff now.