My Husband and I were going on holiday in Scotland for a few days, staying at a cottage near Loch Lomond, a few weeks before I plucked up the courage to ask the landowner of the cottage if we could detect on his land. He kindly agreed, said he had an old detector himself but no time to use it. On arrival, with our trusty EQUINOX 800s, he showed us the fields we could try. The field was just behind the house and it had an incline to the top, Tony could see some kind of church steeple over the brow so we decided to start around there and head back down. Feeling relaxed and looking at the beautiful Scottish scenery as I went, taking in the clean air, I heard a quiet but sharp sound through my wireless headphones. Signal 18 and it sounded good. Now in my experience of using the Nox over the last few months, I would say to my hubby when 18 was the number on the screen, it’s something with a hole in it. I flipped over the plug that i had just cut out, to the right of the hole something caught my eye, a thin strip of something shiny, and problem was I didn’t have my glasses, so I couldn't actually see what it was. My first thought was, im wrong this time, its a bottle top. I cut away at the soil to the right of the find and lifted it out. Omg, i said a little more than that, which i wont repeat, in my hand was a gold ring with dark soil filling its centre. It was some kind of signet ring, but then I spotted the crest on the ring, it was a Coat of Arms, this was no ordinary ring. At this point, I shouted to Tony that I had found gold. My first gold find with my trusty Equinox. Now i know it’s a Armorial Seal Ring around 400 years old, not sure which family name it belongs too as yet, hopefully an expert will tell me very soon. It is such a privilege to have found something so historical and one day i might be able to find out the story of why that ring ended up in a farmer’s quiet field in Scotland.
Michelle - England, UK
