Rings, brooches, pendants and personal ornament lost centuries ago and recovered by detectorists.
In 1912 workmen demolishing a building in Cheapside, in the City of London, broke into a buried box holding about 500 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery: the stock of a 17th-century goldsmith.
In 1833 workmen taking stone from a burial mound at Mold in Flintshire found a cape of beaten sheet gold, made around 1900 to 1600 BC. Nothing like it has been found anywhere else in the world.
A 14th-century gold finger ring found by a detectorist near Rugby in 2023 has been declared Treasure, recorded with the PAS, and bought by Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
A newly married couple lost their heirloom wedding rings in the sea at Embleton Bay on their honeymoon. Two local detectorists found them within five minutes.
A bride swatting away a bee during her wedding in Jersey sent her engagement ring flying onto the beach below. A volunteer detectorist found it within ten minutes, and guests revealed it at the cake-cutting.
Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall lost two Cartier rings in her Kansas garden while throwing grapefruit to the deer. A ring finder found both in under half an hour, without knowing who she was.
A Bournemouth detectorist who finds lost property for free has reached his 500th recovery: an engagement ring thrown during an argument, found sitting on top of a hedge.
A visitor lost her wedding ring on the beach at Botany Bay. A new community noticeboard, a WhatsApp chain and five hours of searching by Thanet Metal Detecting got it back.
