How many rings in your average park / sports field?

[time4me]

There is a small field near my house with a baseball diamond that sits behind a preschool. I believe at one point in the past starting around the mid 1950's the preschool was an elementary school. Not sure for how many years.

Anyways, the grassy field behind the school is not very big, with the baseball diamond taking up around 25% of the total area.

To date, my son and I have found at least 5 rings in this field - 3 sterling, and 2 gold. This got me to thinking about how many rings on average are in the typical grassy field in your local park that is used for sporting activities like soccer, etc. I am convinced that every field like this that has been in use for at least 20 years has to have at least one ring.

Any thoughts?

 

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[stefen]

How many grains of sand are in the average 8 ounce cup?

 

[Eu_citzen]

Up-to-date 0 gold and X silver

As Stefen suggests there really is no average.

 

[DJ_Quinn]

I wish I had a magic formula for knowing what is burried at a given site. It depends on the ammount of trafic and how much use it gets, and beyond that it's really just a matter of chance.

 

[Sandman]

I wish I had a magic formula for knowing what is burried at a given site. It depends on the ammount of trafic and how much use it gets, and beyond that it's really just a matter of chance.

DJ is right.....Depends on how often it was used with other variables thrown in. Old high school fields are better as class rings were more popular then.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Having started from the days of no discrimination, so there can be no debate on "missing" gold rings, I can tell you that the ring ratio in turf is low, compared to swimming areas, where ....... by definition, people are frolicking around, swimming in cooler waters which shrink skin, taking off their jewelry for "safe keeping", etc.... But to try to get averages/statistics on a single stretch of turf is impossible, as others state. Just to many variables like the use of the field, the demographics of the area, etc... Even individual types of sports played there (soccer vs baseball for instance) can have an impact of the type of targets founds. And as far as the recovery of such items you can't discount the odds factor of the current junky-ness. Ie.: there may be some blighted inner city urban turf with LOTS of by-gone era rings in them. But if there are 300 screw caps and tabs per each gold band to be found, what good is that?

 

[EDDE]

i dug 8 silver rings from a soccer field complex(6 fields) and half as many junk rings