{"id":5626,"date":"2022-04-06T06:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forths.com\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2022-04-06T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:55:49","slug":"rugg-pond-metal-detecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/rugg-pond-metal-detecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugg Pond Metal Detecting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the weather finally breaking 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) , I headed out to Rugg Pond Natural Area<\/a> near Kalkaska, MI, with the metal detector. I spent most of my time around the north side of the pond, where a hydro-electric dam was constructed in 1905. Today, Rugg Pond is a popular local destination for trout fishing and family picnics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first hour of detecting was rather uneventful, with the ground giving up beer cans, pull tabs, and a few lead fishing sinkers. I gradually moved to the northeast side of the pond, along a quiet trail. I dug a few old cans and modern coins before getting an interesting signal I hadn’t heard before. At roughly 12 centimeters deep I found a silver ring embedded in the dirt. Previously, I had only found children’s costume jewelry, so my expectations were low. After gently removing the dirt I could see the S925 stamp inside the ring, indicating that this was 92.5% sterling silver. This ring looked nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 7 PM I started to head back to the car, but not before digging an old child’s toy truck, which is probably about 60 years old. I packed the afternoon’s treasures into the car and headed home to sort through the mess. After taking the usual photos, I took the ring, coins and toy truck into the house for ultrasonic cleaning in soapy water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ring cleaned up wonderfully, revealing what may be a beautiful blue sapphire surrounded by 6 smaller diamonds. The coins were all fairly modern, with the oldest being a 1962 Lincoln penny. Once the ring and coins were cleaned, the little truck received the ultrasonic treatment, freeing any remaining dirt from the little beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ring as it was found<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sterling silver stamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ring after cleaning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2 dimes, 2 pennies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Truck is cleaned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tootsietoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The day’s “treasures”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This outing gave me several more hours of experience with the new detector, which is much more complex than my previous machine. Now, I just need to find some old coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3 hours of metal detecting at Rugg Pond produced a silver ring, old child’s toy truck, 4 modern coins, and lots of garbage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198,4],"tags":[211,239,238],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metal-detecting","category-upnorth","tag-metal-detecting","tag-rugg-pond","tag-silver-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}