There are meetings that take a year, and some that take 60 years. So it was for Peggy McSwain, a Scots who thought she had lost her golden wedding ring at Benbecula, in the Western Isles (or Upper Hebrides) in Scotland, when it happened. Out of control after picking potatoes.
as With the British newspaper The GuardianDonald McPhee, a nearby inn owner and amateur metal detectorist, learned this story in conversation with MacSween and decided to search for the ring in Liniclate Machair, a sandy coastal meadow where the ring is believed to have been lost.
For three days, I searched and dug 90 holes. The problem is that the gold rings make the same noise. [no detetor de metais] That washer, and I found a lot of it—plus horseshoes and cans,” McVeigh says.
However, maintaining perseverance, at the end of the third day, MacPhee found said ring, causing him to be “completely amazed”. I searched in an area of five thousand square meters. It was one of 100,000 and the best I’ve ever come up with. He was lucky. There was technology in the research, but I was really lucky,” he admits.
The detective admitted it was “a bit sentimental”, noted that the ring was “clean”, and when he brought it to MacSween, he realized it still fit him perfectly.
“He came to my door and told me ‘I have something to show you.’ It was the ring. I didn’t believe it, but it was there. I thought I’d never see him again,” said McSwain, 86, adding that he lost it after he flicked his gloves to remove Sand and he tried to search for it twice, but to no avail.
The woman even ended up getting a replacement ring bought by her husband John, whom she married in 1958 and died a few years earlier. Now, the reunion really happened.
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