Another Ring Hunt - Successful this time.

[Eric Foster]

Had a phone call yesterday from a lady whose husband had lost a platinum ring. This was not on the beach, but on clifftop ancient fort site. He had been climbing down a wall, when he slipped slightly and a stone pulled the ring off. The ring fell into grass, brambles and weeds on ground that also had a good number of rocks and large stones. A manual search the same day by the couple and many friends failed to find the ring.

For this hunt I used a Goldquest SS fitted with an 8in coil. Searching along the base of the wall gave a few strong signals, but scraping the ground did not reveal anything. As in the recent beach hunt, if there was no sign of the object in the first inch or so, then I moved on. Several bits of near surface junk were dug, but they were balls of foil or ends of drink cans. After about 1/2 hour and another promising signal, I dug out another lump of foil. Checking the ground after removing the foil, there was still a strong signal so I asked the couple to continue scraping, while I located another target. There was a sudden hush, then they both jumped with joy, there was the lost ring, which was in a gap between a rock and the surrounding soil.

This demonstrated the value of checking again after the first target is removed.

Eric.

 

[Tony]

n/t

 

[brocantes]

I like that background too!

 

[Eric Foster]

,Largesarg, the young lady in question was from a church outing which was giving a holiday for about 40 children. I told them about the PI Forum, and they would probably not appreciate your comment, if they visited the forum. Hence the deletion.

I would have taken an onsite picture of an ancient wall with thorns, brambles and rocks strewn on the ground, but at the last moment did not take the camera, as I did not really expect to find it. The shot I took was back at my house.

Eric.

 

[brocantes]

Sorry largesarge II. Didn't mean to offend anyone.By the way, message hasn't been deleted.