The ring has baffled archaeologists because it is unlike any other according to the Yorkshire Museum.

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The Yorkshire Museum, in York, said it hoped to purchase the hoard and put it on display.

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Feeding the Nation is to be unveiled at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming at Murton, near York.

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John Roland Reader, For services to the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire.

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"The Brontes grew up used to seeing their father's books on the shelves of the parsonage, " says Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the family's former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

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