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Surf n' Recover

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Submitted By:

Bert Welland (GB)

Keywords:

RELIC SILVER

In late September last year two American detectorist friends, Gary and Gene from Cincinnati, Ohio came for a visit - they were with me for four days.

The first trip I took Gary and Gene on was to one of my favourite spots just off the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. Detecting in a wood on the hillside Gary first found a bronze horse brass – it is about 4� inches by 3� inches, a quarter of an inch thick, weight about 4 ozs. There were three lugs protruding from the back and the broken stub of a fourth. On the face appear to be the initials M c K, I have yet to do some research on this inscription to try to find out if it can be identified.

Our second trip was near to Windsor Castle on the bank of a stream adjoining a playing field. The first thing to come up from about four inches was a silver bracelet, nicely decorated round the outside with a floral design. With just a rub with a cloth it shone like new. There were no hallmarks on it so have not been able to date it. This was found by Gary.

Next to appear was a lovely silver livery button, found by Gene. This too only needed a rub to shine brightly. It is about ⅞” diameter and on the face is depicted, on the left a stags head and on the right, a hounds head, facing each other. Maybe this was from a huntsman’s coat.

The next find was a metal statue. It came up from about six inches and was found by Gary. It is just over five inches tall and depicts a lady in ancient dress. It has not yet been cleaned and restored.

Surf n' Recover

Submitted By:

Robert Morton (GB)

Keywords:

RETURNED JEWELRY

UK DETECTOR NET provides link to gold ring

Early on Tuesday 18th June Brian & Mo' received an e-mail from a Themos Tsikas, from Oxford, England, explaining that he had lost a heavy 18 carat gold ring the previous evening whilst working in a friends garden. He asked if we could direct him to somewhere he may hire a metal detector.

UK DETECTOR NET could do better than that for the site contains a database of detector users from all over the world, and.... one lived in Oxford. Within minutes Brian & Mo' had e-mailed Themos back with the e-mail address of Robert Morton, a detectorist living in Oxford.

Robert logged on to his works e-mail system that same morning and found Themos' e-mail passed by UK DETECTOR NET. He replied straight away enclosing his phone number and awaited a reply.

He received a phone call at 7.30 pm that same evening. As they were only twelve miles apart, Robert suggested that he could pop over that night to try to find the ring. The following is Robert's story of the search:-

"Themos had been cutting long rough grass and had moved it to the bonfire a little distance away. I used my XLT to search the area where he had cut the grass. After an hour I had found nothing except a grimy 20p. The site where the garden was had a history dating back to the 1600's and was heavily contaminated with metal."

"I then moved on to the bonfire area. At this point I got my second machine out of the car and gave Themos a quick demo on how to use it. We spent another hour detecting around the bonfire but were unable to find anything."

It was now 10.00 pm and as the light was fading fast I suggested that we move back to the first area and try again for another twenty minutes. The twenty minutes passed and we still hadn't found the ring. I started to head back to my car and at the same time tried to think of the best way to admit to Themos that I wouldn't be able to find his ring that day, and to suggest that I should try another day, when the XLT produced a beautiful sound. It was too dark to see what had produced the signal so John grabbed a torch and shone it where the signal had come from to show the wonderful glint of gold."

"After two and a half hours searching I had found Themos's ring. Although it was dark at the time, the little light that the torch produced was enough to show the grin and relief of Themos."

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