Big Gold! A First For Me!

[West Jersey Detecting]

Last week I checked out a new site with my V3i. It was a wooded area surrounding an old swimming hole. It seemed promising, digging an Indian Head, a '44 Merc and some Wheaties.

Today I returned with South Jersey Ben. Both of us had our land detectors and our water detectors. We tried the swimming hole for a while, digging nothing but modern coins. The woods, on the other hand, were another story. My first find was a small silver earring followed by a junk St. Christopher medallion. Then I got a signal which only gave a threshold change from the All Metal channel of my V3i. The soil is iron rich here and getting any depth is tough. I almost didn't dig this iron-like signal, but then I realized the display showed that the dominant frequency was 7.5 KHz, which is always a mid-range target on the "V". When I saw the gold in the hole I must have yelled out loud, because next thing I remember was Ben running over to look in the hole.

The ring is 11 grams of 10K gold from Northeast Catholic HS class of 1951. My first class ring! The owner is likely to be 79 years old now, but I have already reached out to the alumni association contact for that class. I hope the owner is alive so I can return it to him. If not, his next of kin will get the ring if I can track them down.''

 

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[beachbug]

Awsome find!! Still waiting on my first class ring

 

[granthansen]

Awesome finds... good luck finding the owner!

 

[ticm]

Nice one Neil. Good luck on the return. Congrats on a first.

 

[PI PETE]

what a beautiful ring! Nice Job!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Wooo-Hoooo! Congratulations!!!!!

 

[CASPER-2]

BEAUTIFUL RING - Congrats
woods near any older swimming hole/beach can be gold
got to remember in the old days if they did not have a change room
you got changed in the woods - when I was a kid - I detected woods near
a small beachand got alot of wheats and silver dimes among other things

 

[jmaryt]

Last week I checked out a new site with my V3i. It was a wooded area surrounding an old swimming hole. It seemed promising, digging an Indian Head, a '44 Merc and some Wheaties.

Today I returned with South Jersey Ben. Both of us had our land detectors and our water detectors. We tried the swimming hole for a while, digging nothing but modern coins. The woods, on the other hand, were another story. My first find was a small silver earring followed by a junk St. Christopher medallion. Then I got a signal which only gave a threshold change from the All Metal channel of my V3i. The soil is iron rich here and getting any depth is tough. I almost didn't dig this iron-like signal, but then I realized the display showed that the dominant frequency was 7.5 KHz, which is always a mid-range target on the "V". When I saw the gold in the hole I must have yelled out loud, because next thing I remember was Ben running over to look in the hole.

The ring is 11 grams of 10K gold from Northeast Catholic HS class of 1951. My first class ring! The owner is likely to be 79 years old now, but I have already reached out to the alumni association contact for that class. I hope the owner is alive so I can return it to him. If not, his next of kin will get the ring if I can track them down.''

god bless you! hope you can find him!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[Deepdiger60]

Good find Neil hope you get it back to family , i only found one HS ring a few years back recognize the school Neil ? the owner now lives in Tenn. where it was sent to . Jim

 

[hamiddetecting]

Congratulation!!!

 

[Giant056]

Great score on the nice old class ring Neil and good luck locating the owner

 

[JohnnyMac]

Nice ring...my dad went to north..it was closed down in 2010..

 

[jewelerguy]

great find. that will really be a great story if you are able to return it to the original owner

 

[kilmer]

Wow, that ring is beautiful. Good luck on your quest. Sounds like it is a good thing you know your machine or you might have missed it.

Congrats, Don

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Awesome find Neil.

I have found a Silver class ring, but a gold one is still on my top ten list, I'd be quite happy with any 10 grammer though.

 

[steelheadwill]

Super Find Neil !!
Beautiful Ring, Best wishes in tracking down the owner

 

[DaleGM]

good story Neil and good luck finding the lost finger to the ring

if possible post up a pic of the return to the owner or family.....awesome find!!!!

 

[teak]

Sweet!

 

[leprechaun]

awesome ring good luck on the return.

 

[Beach Hunter]

great finds, congrats