Using my new Minelab EQUINOX 800, I was on a historical site in eastern Virginia for a few days. This site has colonial all the way up to Civil War. I was detecting in a spot that had produced many early coins and buttons in the past and within the first hour on our last day of hunting, when I cut the sod in the ground and flipped it over, a gold ring was laying in the soil. I knew it was old from the deep-yellow, high-karat gold. It turned out to be an amazing find. It was a colonial era gold poesy ring. On the inside of the ring it reads "This and I until I dye." It also has a makers mark. At the moment I am in the process of contacting the British museum to hopefully get an I.D. of the exact age of the ring and the goldsmith that produced it. Quite an old and historical find to see the light of day once again after hundreds of years forgotten.
Dennis - Virginia, USA
