Forgotten History

Though parallelism was drawn, the story faded with the passage of time until a couple who was archeologist was invited to visit the place again in 1928. Mortimer Wheeler and his wife Tessa, spent the next 2 years of their life examining and researching the story if they were really interlinked or their coexistence was just by chance.

The Connection

It was the Wheelers who gave solid proofs that showed the connection between the ring and the curse table. The revelation didn’t end here, there were several questions that materialized with the revelation that followed. It was another big task in front of them to know about the owner of the ring and the person who had been cursed and why? 

Story Of The Curse

They started to dig up more about the connection and while they were researching they came to know about the story behind the curse. The ring belonged to the man named Silvianus, a native of Gloucestershire who had paid a visit to the elaborate baths of the Celtic God Nodens. The temple was located above the River Severn at Lydney on a hill.

The Theft

While Silvianus was taking bath, his ring was stolen from the temple and he believed that a man named Senicianus had stolen his ring. The ring was not ordinary, it had square bezel on which the Roman Goddess Venus was engraved and had 10 facets. Yet at the time when Silvianus owned the ring, all the 10 sides were bare and nothing was inscribed on it.

Correcting The Mistake

It was only later that the Christian owner perhaps Senicianus who had engraved “Seniciane Vivas Iin De”on the ring which otherwise should have been “Seniciane Vivas In DEO” which if translated meant “Senicianus, may you live with God,”,although he had misspelled the certain letters thus making it difficult to comprehend in the first place.

Silvianus Rage

After finding out that Senicianus had stolen his ring, his anger was at the peak and he went outside brought a lead plaque on which he wrote the curse which was later found by the Wheeler couple. Though there was no aftermath of the curse, it was believed that Senicianus had misplaced the ring and some theories say he abandoned it on purpose but no one knew about the Senicianus’ fate after that curse.