School at Mud Bridge

This school isn't really at Mud Bridge. We just call it that because the last time we were here we then took the car to a place that is nicknamed "Mud Bridge".

It has been a long time since we detected. The sale of the house and moving out in less than a month occupied all our time. We are now living at Mary's mothers awaiting to get our new house this fall. Things have just started to settle down so we decided to get the old detector out and walk a school yard.

The grass was wet from recent rain and soon our socks and sneakers were soaked through. Mary was detecting as we walked around in the high clover that blanketed the soccer field. The ground was very quiet. We mainly walked only stopping a couple dozen times to dig. The earth was crumbling mud and made it hard to dig. My equipment and I soon became covered in mud.

Beside the baseball field I was digging and Mary went ahead to find the next spot. I had to call her back to re-scan my hole. This caused her to misplace where we wanted to dig next. She knew it was by an ant hole but we soon realized that the ant holes were everywhere. It was only a 12 reading on the detector indicating metal foil, but I was desperate for things to dig so we kept looking until we found it again. It paid off with a 10K gold ring with an ellipse shaped amethyst and 6 tiny diamond-like stones. We also found 58cents so you could say the ring was the biggest find (If you don't count the culvert Mary tried to get me to dig up).