Centreville, Virginia Search for Lost Diamond Pendant...Found by Metal Detector Expert

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Nicholas was over at a friend’s house for a party one evening. He was wearing a white gold diamond pendant that was given to him by his aunt for his 16th birthday (2 years earlier).

Because the chain which the pendant was hanging from was partially broken, Nicholas would occasionally look down to make sure that the piece of jewelry was still hanging around his neck.

During the party, Nicholas and a couple of friends started play wrestling. The 18-year-old college student continued to take inventory regarding his treasured pendant following the « horsing around ».

At some point, the guys decided to leave the house through the basement door and go take a drive over to the nearby 7-Eleven. As soon as Nicholas walked approximately 10 feet or so across the back lawn, he looked down (using the moon as his lighting source) and he noticed that his beloved 16th birthday gift was no longer hanging from the chain.

Nicholas began searching for his lost white gold and diamond piece of jewelry but all of his efforts could not retrieve the pendant. It was about one-thirty in the morning, it was dark outside, the grass in some places was fairly thick and tall, and the sentimental keepsake was quite small in size.

The sad teenager immediately went online and searched for an answer to his problem. He found THE RING FINDERS, an elite international directory of metal detectorists who specialize in finding lost jewelry. He immediately left me a text message and a voicemail. Later that morning, I called the distressed college kid to discuss details regarding the lost pendant.

Sometime in the afternoon, I drove to Centreville, Virginia to meet up at Nicholas’s friend’s house where the white gold diamond pendant fell off of my client’s chain. I first asked Nicholas to reenact his walk from the walk-out basement steps all the way to the place on the grass where he realized his jewel was missing. He felt pretty sure that he checked the basement carpet and furniture and so his only conclusion was that the piece of gold was somewhere between the top step and 10 feet across the lawn.

I began metal detecting all of the footage surrounding the suspected site. Unfortunately, nothing turned up. I then did a perpendicular grid search just to make sure that I didn’t miss the pendant if it was stuck on an angle below the grass line. Still, I was again unsuccessful in recovering the item.

Next, I did some detailing around the concrete area at the top of the steps but that too proved to be free of the cherished 16th birthday gift. So, I then explained to Nicholas that the only method left for me to do was to change out my detector’s coil size and set my machine to a special mode that might help pick up the pendant’s gold properties if in fact the item was truly lost on the lawn.

As a result, I’m excited to share that the special strategy that I decided to implement proved to bring success to my lost pendant search attempt! One of the signals that got picked up by my metal detector was not one that had sounded off through my headphones earlier in the search. The piece e of jewelry was just too small for the detector to pick up the target signal when it was on one of the normal search modes.

I was so happy for Nicholas and he could not have been more excited for the work that I demonstrated during that nearly 2 hour search time frame. I wasn’t willing to give up until I initiated every last option that I could offer from my toolbox of experience and technology which ultimately brought the positive results that I and my client had been looking for!

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