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Another great result Hat.
Have you deciphered either of the hall marks yet?

MK

I managed to drag myself out of bed this morning at 8 20 am. Low tide was at 9am so I skipped breakfast and drove down to a local beach. Found nearly nothing first half hour then got a pull tab. A metre from the pull tab another similar signal. Out pops a nice 18ct ring with ruby? and diamonds? !! Was surprised to get it next to a pull tab. Couple signals later I got the chunky stonemasons ring, and only 2m from the first ring.
Then it went quiet for a while, till I got a large (in terms of size) but not too loud signal. Usually large equals junk, well I'll dig it anyway. Out pops a small sinker. That's not all I though, too big a signal. On re scanning sure enough another signal. Bang out pops another ring, this time a 14ct ring! Seems the signals were close together and overlapping. Well what a morning, only been at it an hour! Then it went quiet again and I thought Id head home. Walking back to the car along the beach I was speed scanning and got and isolated scratchy signal. Was out in first scoop. Rubbish I though. Well no it was a gold ring. It is the signet ring on the left. Very thin and worn. It is missing part of the band although not visible in the photo. It has the start and end of the hallmarks but is missing the carat stamp. Oh well I'll take it.

Happy hunting,

Hatter

Thanks mate, I will go get the ring with stones valued I think.

Yeah it's a freemasonry ring. Good to get chunky 18ct. A good keeper. Won't be too many of them about.

I put it down to knowing a bit about where mother nature deposits things and a good dose of good luck thrown in. I got nothing last Sunday. The main thing is to be out there doing it.

Stunning weather today, almost too good to go detecting. Yeah right!!

I had to search long and hard for decent targets today. The spot was not as productive as last weekends quadruple gold.
I managed to get the half crown early on, my first since I left Dunedin at the end of 2012. The 18ct ring was the last target I dug after a solid three hours detecting. Happy hunting folks

Glad to see the Excal is producing for you Hatter.

HH
MK

'Bout time I came out of hibernation and started posting again (Yawns and stretches).

Some great finds there Hatter, good to see your still detecting the shiny yellow stuff (even if it is rings and not the nuggies).

Hey chaps and chapettes,

Just a quick update today. Managed to get out for a buzz yesterday after work to a very sanded in beach with lots of waves.
I found a small patch amongst the fruitless new sand where a rip current had done some clearing and found these treasures.

Cant wait for the weekend to go have another outing!

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I wear them all, actually am running out of finger space. Ha-ha no I have sold virtually all of them. I keep the silver ones as I am planning to make a nice silver bar some day. Gold is too expensive to have sitting around doing nothing.