Mona Lisa
Gold Member
- Jan 13, 2005
- 5,112
- 36
- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX & a Sunray probe
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
*UPDATE RING RETURNED* Thar's gold in that thar hole! Mona's first class ring.
Last week we invited a woman to our detecting club meeting who has been searching for foundations for years. She's been documenting where all the foundations are in the town she lives in. She has an album full of pictures of cellarholes that we drooled over. :P
We love this woman and her album of detecting possibilities! 
On a side note, she also dowses. She taught us the techniques for dowsing, what happens, how to hold the rods, etc. I won't get into that, because I know the controversy that dowsing causes on Tnet.
It was very interesting. 
So she talked about her experiences hunting down these old foundations, and she was nice enough to let us hunt her property. She lives in an old house and there is a foundation on her property. She, also, mentioned in passing that maybe we could find a couple of gold rings that were dropped around her house.
It was freezing cold today with temperatures in the 30's with a wind chill of 100 below zero...but I shamed the guys (girly men) in our club into detecting anyways. Schrecky, Mamo, and I detected today. When we arrived at her house, which was built in the 1800's, our intentions were to first search for the rings for her, then maybe search the foundations which were up the road.
I started hunting close to the house where there were plenty of signals but.......because I'm a lazy hunter and it was freezing-butt cold, I decided to hunt away from the house with my back to the wind, in the area she said the ring might be in. Ten minutes into the hunt, I got a great solid mid-toned signal of an object 3 ½ inches down. Here's what I found.
I took some pictures and hurried to the door, rang the doorbell, and showed an astonished and happy woman the solid gold class ring that her nephew had lost before he even graduated from high school. She didn't call her nephew and tell him, she was going to put it in a ring box and wrap it up for him and surprise him with it. She's going to email me pictures of her nephew receiving his long lost class ring. 8)
Here are some items that we dug today. Mamo found a indianhead penny, some wheaties, and a nice piece of costume jewelry. Schrecky found the only silver of the hunt along with plenty of wheat pennies. Thanks for lookin'!
UPDATE.....look at the end of this thread for comments from Bob, the man who lost the ring, and for pictures!
Last week we invited a woman to our detecting club meeting who has been searching for foundations for years. She's been documenting where all the foundations are in the town she lives in. She has an album full of pictures of cellarholes that we drooled over. :P
We love this woman and her album of detecting possibilities! On a side note, she also dowses. She taught us the techniques for dowsing, what happens, how to hold the rods, etc. I won't get into that, because I know the controversy that dowsing causes on Tnet.
It was very interesting. So she talked about her experiences hunting down these old foundations, and she was nice enough to let us hunt her property. She lives in an old house and there is a foundation on her property. She, also, mentioned in passing that maybe we could find a couple of gold rings that were dropped around her house.
It was freezing cold today with temperatures in the 30's with a wind chill of 100 below zero...but I shamed the guys (girly men) in our club into detecting anyways. Schrecky, Mamo, and I detected today. When we arrived at her house, which was built in the 1800's, our intentions were to first search for the rings for her, then maybe search the foundations which were up the road.
Mamo
Schrecky
I started hunting close to the house where there were plenty of signals but.......because I'm a lazy hunter and it was freezing-butt cold, I decided to hunt away from the house with my back to the wind, in the area she said the ring might be in. Ten minutes into the hunt, I got a great solid mid-toned signal of an object 3 ½ inches down. Here's what I found.
I took some pictures and hurried to the door, rang the doorbell, and showed an astonished and happy woman the solid gold class ring that her nephew had lost before he even graduated from high school. She didn't call her nephew and tell him, she was going to put it in a ring box and wrap it up for him and surprise him with it. She's going to email me pictures of her nephew receiving his long lost class ring. 8)
Here are some items that we dug today. Mamo found a indianhead penny, some wheaties, and a nice piece of costume jewelry. Schrecky found the only silver of the hunt along with plenty of wheat pennies. Thanks for lookin'!
UPDATE.....look at the end of this thread for comments from Bob, the man who lost the ring, and for pictures!
