Sixty Years Later!

CAP · Feb 1, 2015

This little diamond ring was lost by my Mother around 1954-55 on the 40 acre farm where she and dad was cutting fodder for the cows and mules. When I first started metal detecting in earnest around 1993, she told me about losing it but could not remember where on the farm she lost it, just that it was in one of the fields. I have practiced with my various metal detectors all over this farm and dug up a lot of stuff, mainly plow points and horse shoes. I never really entertained the thought that I would be lucky enough to ever find this little ring, even if I set out to systematically hunt it.
I recently had about an hour to kill before going to work and ran out my front door, I live on the back side of the property now, to search the field in front of my house where I had previously found a musketball and an Indian arrowhead. The first signal I got, I dug, at about 4 inches. I expected it to be a bullet or shell casing because my son has used this area as a firing range. The signal was coming in as foil, around the mid 40's on the AT Pro. I was totally surprised to see the ring, partly encased in the chunk of clay dirt. It took about 30 seconds to realize it. She is 88 years old now. I just showed it to her and she has claimed it!
There's no telling how many little gold rings that I have walked over in the parks and beach discriminating them out!