Found 1/2 of a treasure

[gallienus267]

Hit two places on Monday. First was a park and long story short it was hit by the slob element before I got there. One look and its easy to tell why some places ban the hobby. Things were slow there so later in the day I hit a school that had a peastone playground. Also slow but I hit 32 coins and this half ring. I have the same ring (marked) in my silver jar. This ring has no markings but I did the acid test with my test kit and it hit positive as sterling silver. I did 1/2 of a Yee - Ha Thanks for looking.

 

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[Scott (Mich)]

Good going - a 1/2 of a treasure is a lot better then no treasure.

You mentioned a slob was there before you. I was curious, did you see open holes with shovel marks or trash on top of the ground? One of the reasons I ask is that sometimes we detectorists get blamed for the diggings of night critters like skunks or daytime critters like ground hogs. I remember reading an article where they were blaming a man detecting for destroying the landscape when it turn out to be a critter doing night diggings looking for grubs. A slow ground mole does a lot more damage than a fast detectorist.

It is too bad that there are idiots out there that have no clue that they should fill their holes back in. I suspect that these are the same ones that throw their trash out the car window and just do not give a hoot about property that does not belong to them.

Happy Hunting,

Scott (MI)

 

[treasurefiend]

Hey, a ring is a ring is a ring!!!! Great find

 

[Paul4x4]

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who digs broken rings. Found two rings last weekend, and both were bent up pretty badly. Well, as stated above, a ring is a ring even broken

 

[Argentium]

Gallienus , Hey man i just gotta know , which half , the yee or the ha ? congrats ! Gregory, Santa Fe.

 

[allen]

sweet silver ring...

 

[gallienus267]

Good going - a 1/2 of a treasure is a lot better then no treasure.

You mentioned a slob was there before you. I was curious, did you see open holes with shovel marks or trash on top of the ground? One of the reasons I ask is that sometimes we detectorists get blamed for the diggings of night critters like skunks or daytime critters like ground hogs. I remember reading an article where they were blaming a man detecting for destroying the landscape when it turn out to be a critter doing night diggings looking for grubs. A slow ground mole does a lot more damage than a fast detectorist.

It is too bad that there are idiots out there that have no clue that they should fill their holes back in. I suspect that these are the same ones that throw their trash out the car window and just do not give a hoot about property that does not belong to them.

Happy Hunting,

Scott (MI)

Thanks for the Question. What ticked me off was that in a well traveled area they came across a penny hunt area and there is a spot about 3 to 4 feet in diameter that is totally brown dead fluffy sod pieces surrounded by nice green grass. Now I like to find a penny hunt area as much as the other guy, but one has to realize that for the gain of a pocket full of pennies they totally destroyed a nice yard in the middle of an area that the public is always in. I can just see the authorities banning the hobby in the park because of this incidents like this

 

[Lt1stone]

Nice find!