5 published discoveries from United States — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
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.
Two detectorists found a 1988 high school class ring under a rock on the shore of Great Sacandaga Lake, 28 years after it was lost, and tracked down its owner through her old school.
An Ohio man used a metal detector to find the wedding ring his late father lost in the front yard almost 50 years ago. Two weeks later, he found a school friend's lost ring too.
Following a trail of silver coins on the wreck of the Spanish galleon Atocha, a salvage diver's detector picked up a faint signal: a 55-pound copper ingot, lost in a hurricane in 1622.
Walking their dog on their own land in 2013, a California couple spotted a rusty can sticking out of the ground. It was the first of eight, holding 1,427 gold coins worth about $10 million.
