I received this email from the ‘Contact Us’ form on the website on Saturday:-
Subject: Lost ring
Message Body:
Today I have lost a very sentimental ring in my horse’s stable. We have searched by hand for literally hours! Please would it be possible for someone to help. We have moved the horse out and locked the door. I know the ring is in there as I felt it fall off. I think you have been to our farm in the past to use our fields for detecting in South Godstone, Surrey.
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This mail is sent via contact form on wkdc.co.uk http://wkdc.co.uk
Seeing as the horse had been ‘locked out’ and this was potentially a club site I thought it necessary for a quick response to this SOS. Arrangements were made for me to attend the farm on Monday at about midday (M25 permitting). During Sunday night and Monday morning the rain poured down and the A22 south of Godstone required a boat to pass rather than a small car – but I made it, thankfully, slightly early.
The stable was relatively small, about 3m square with bedding consisting of a mixture of cut straw and sawdust which had been banked up around the edge of the stable wall to a height of about 3 feet. Although Emma, the lady whose ring was missing, had spent a great deal of time looking, the area wasn’t greatly disturbed.
Anita, the landowner and Emma’s mother-in-law, was there to assist me and informed me the way the horse was facing and what activity was taking place (brushing of the horse’s tail) when the ring flew off. There fortunately, was not a great deal of metal in the stable just an iron chain at the door and nails in the wooden walls, the stable also had a rubber floor mat. The first quick detect around the bedding drew a blank from the Deus – only the iron nails in the wall. The next and much slower approach got a good signal of ’80’ from well up the side of the banked up bedding. When disturbed, the signal landed on the rubber floor matting along with an amount of bedding. Using the usual technique of grasping the soil, but in this case bedding, and waving over the coil I finally got the signal in my hand but I still couldn’t see the object. Dividing up the contents of my hand and waving over the coil finally I was able to see the ring which I handed back to a delighted Anita!
It doesn’t really suprise me that the ring was impossible to find ‘eyes only’ being made of three colours of gold it blended perfectly with the bedding and it was very difficult to see in my hand even when the detector told me it was there!
I received this email from Emma later that day:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! So grateful for the time you so generously gave up to find my ring, with great success!
Emma
