Deepest Gold Ring?

[tabman]

What's the deepest gold ring that you have found in the dirt. All of mine have been from 1 to 2 inches deep and tangled in grass roots.

tabman

 

[D&P-OR]

Deepest gold ring that we've found (turf hunting) was found by my wife at 3 to 4 inches in a soccer field.--------Del

 

[Mtnmn]

The deepest gold I've ever found was about 5 to 5 1/2" with the XT-70 using the 10.5" DD MF coil. Except it wasn't a ring, but a circular shaped, very thin and narrow (18 K / 1 G) piece from the front of a small antique pocket watch.

 

[JB(MS)]

A large 10k mans nugget ring 6 inches deep, give or take a quarter of an inch, where a high school football field was from 1916 until 1960 or 61. Also found, and returned, a large 1973 high school class ring at a small park that was about the same depth. Both were large enough to ID in the zinc range when I checked them with a metered detector. Except for those two the others were from surface to maybe four inches deep with most being surface to barely under the surface..

 

[Larry (IL)]

The deepest I have found was a 1936 class ring @ 8 inches. By far though, most jewelry I have found is less than 4 inches.

 

[jim tn]

1928 class ring in our favorite park at 7." Most, though, are less then 4." HH jim tn

 

[Smudge]

A wedding band right at three inches. Found it with my Compadre.

 

[REVIER]

I have found 12 gold rings in the dirt in about 2.5 years from very tiny and thin to a huge honking 17g class ring.
None were found any deeper than 4"...most of them were actually 2-3".

 

[Hombre]

Howdy tabman,

..I found a 1935 class ring in an area that had a club hunt, with about 20 people attending with all kinds of equipment. The area was a grassy median that held some nice finds, including an Oklahoma Territory token that was a high dollar find. There was a sea of can slaw in this area with readings in the nickel range on my 5900 Di Pro SL (CB) and when I got a pulltab reading at 8", I was hopefull. Sure enough it was honker 10K class ring at about 7" or 8" deep. Then I went on to find a 1930's Pontiac token at about 8" and an Indian head penny at 6" deep. I found a 1938 10K class ring at about 5" deep with my wife's Toltec ll years ago, so they are out there, just got to get your coil over one.

 

[tabman]

This is interesting stuff. I always thought that a gold ring would sink deep because of its density. What amazes me is how deep screw caps and beaver tail pull tabs sink. I've dug some pretty darn deep ones.

tabman

 

[Smudge]

The kind of soil you're dealing with can have a lot to do with it.

 

[Hombre]

This is interesting stuff. I always thought that a gold ring would sink deep because of its density. What amazes me is how deep screw caps and beaver tail pull tabs sink. I've dug some pretty darn deep ones.

tabman

I think alot of the various depths on junk and good targets are man made soil disturbances, either fill dirt brought in to fill low spots, or roto tilled. It could be that the fill dirt was contaminated with junk or good targets brought in with fill dirt, we just don't have a clue to what happed to the soil in the area we are metal detecting at.

 

[tabman]

Hey I set a new depth record for myself today for a gold ring. A whole 4 inches deep.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1810071

tabman

 

[caleb]

My only gold ring so far was at 2", but I dug a capri sun bag at 6" this morning

 

[edjcox]

All the gold rings I've ever encountered where to deep to find.... That's what I tell myself.... Non found to date...

 

[richbat]

14K wedding band at about 4" with a Compadre about 3 weeks ago.

 

[Hombre]

For all you folks out there with metered detectors, just keep on believing those pulltab signals are really pulltabs, leaves more gold jewelery for those that don't believe what the meter reads.

 

[Picsous]

My deepest ring was a women band 18k
at 12'' deep with the SAFARI,i almost stop digging at 10''.

 

[D&P-OR]

Turf or sand (beach)?

My deepest ring was a women band 18k
at 12'' deep with the SAFARI,i almost stop digging at 10''.