AirmetTango
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I got out for a short hunt this morning - it was forecast to get quite warm as the day progressed, but I was thinking I could avoid being cooked too badly since there were quite a few clouds around to provide some random shade. No such luck - I was sweating buckets within 20 minutes! And apparently I drag/lean my right forearm along the front of my right leg when I kneel and dig targets...I know this because I suddenly realized I looked like I wet myself when I stood up after about the 12th plug I dug! 
The sweat from my arm had transferred to the leg of my cargo shorts...my whole right leg from the belt line down to my knee was saturated!! My pride was spared by the fact that I had the park to myself...no one else was crazy enough to go out in the heat! 
Anyway, I didn’t get much for my trouble - although I’m still managing to pull the occasional interesting find of the park. I went back to the same area that I dug the Large Cent the other day, to see if anything else good was still lurking in the spot. Maybe 10 feet from were I dug the Largie, I hit on a solid high tone, 78-79 signal in all directions indicating only 4” down. A little too high for a Zincoln, but not quite high enough for a copper Lincoln - I honestly assumed it would come up as can slaw. But it was a definite “dig me” signal, so I knelt my sweat-soaked self down to dig again, and got rewarded with a cool, old sterling ring! The band was broken and bent up quite a bit, but the design is neat and clearly antique. It looks like it broke right at the seam of the band, especially since you can see the black solder on both sides of the break and on both the inside and outside of the band. Cool that the stone is still in place, though it’s a little loose - any ideas what type of stone it might be? The greenish stone has a foggy, translucence to it. I don’t know stones very well, and I don’t see a match on current or past lists for birthstones. But I also know birthstones lists are often very inconsistent.
The only other finds are the shot shell headstamps which date from somewhere in the 1940s to 1960s that appear in the pictures, all of 4 cents in pennies, and some trash.
Thanks for reading!
The sweat from my arm had transferred to the leg of my cargo shorts...my whole right leg from the belt line down to my knee was saturated!! My pride was spared by the fact that I had the park to myself...no one else was crazy enough to go out in the heat! Anyway, I didn’t get much for my trouble - although I’m still managing to pull the occasional interesting find of the park. I went back to the same area that I dug the Large Cent the other day, to see if anything else good was still lurking in the spot. Maybe 10 feet from were I dug the Largie, I hit on a solid high tone, 78-79 signal in all directions indicating only 4” down. A little too high for a Zincoln, but not quite high enough for a copper Lincoln - I honestly assumed it would come up as can slaw. But it was a definite “dig me” signal, so I knelt my sweat-soaked self down to dig again, and got rewarded with a cool, old sterling ring! The band was broken and bent up quite a bit, but the design is neat and clearly antique. It looks like it broke right at the seam of the band, especially since you can see the black solder on both sides of the break and on both the inside and outside of the band. Cool that the stone is still in place, though it’s a little loose - any ideas what type of stone it might be? The greenish stone has a foggy, translucence to it. I don’t know stones very well, and I don’t see a match on current or past lists for birthstones. But I also know birthstones lists are often very inconsistent.
The only other finds are the shot shell headstamps which date from somewhere in the 1940s to 1960s that appear in the pictures, all of 4 cents in pennies, and some trash.
Thanks for reading!
