Neil in West Jersey
New member
I recently started a new business venture so I have not had much time for detecting. Last week I finally got out for about an hour to check 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.''
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.''
