Received a call from Mark asking if I would be interested in looking for a ring lost 40 years ago. He went on to explain that it was lost during a structure fire on his dads farm. There were some tires stacked around the back of the building. Mark started throwing the tires away from the building so they wouldn't catch fire. In the process of doing that one caught his new class ring and pulled it off his finger. He spent the next three days looking for it, but no luck. My search partner Rachel and I met him at the farm and he explained where he thought the building stood back then. Using tent stakes and string we laid out a grid to ensure we covered every inch. Towards the middle of the grid I started digging up small chunks of molten metal and lots of small bits of iron. Those targets gave us a good idea where the building once stood and most of all where the rear of the building was. Much of the grid was over the area the building would have been standing, so we decided to change directions with the grid and move it further out in the direction his ring would have gone. Every interesting piece of metal I dug up I would call Mark over to have him check it out. Two hours in, I had a good signal. One flick of my digging tool popped out a very dirty class ring. I looked over at Mark, he was on his cell. Rachel was digging a few feet away and I whispered to her that I had just found the ring. She started to get a bit excited and I asked her to hold on a minute. Mark was still on his phone but I called him over to check out an interesting find as I had done before. I hadn't cleaned the ring so it took him a minute to pick it out from the other chunks of dirt. Once he noticed, it he became extremely excited. I made the assumption from his reaction, that this ring was a gift to a teenage son from his father. A father that had recently passed.
Tony - USA
