UK Ringfinders Network

Have You Lost a Treasured Ring or Other Item of Jewellery?

Rings and jewellery are usually loved and treasured and often have a special meaning to their owners and their value is way more than just their monetary value. They are worn to show their love of someone, or in memory of someone who has passed, but sadly they are easily lost, fingers shrink in cold wet conditions, more so than a ring does. Earrings can get snagged on clothing and fall off, brooches can become unfastened and fall off. In just a moment a treasured, irreplaceable item can be lost, maybe forever, but hopefully not.

Maybe you were enjoying some time on the beach with your family, or just tidying the garden. Then a short while later, with that sinking feeling of dread and horror, you realised that something was missing, it had gone. That treasured possession was no longer where you thought it was.

This is where the UK Ringfinders network quite literally swings into action. Contact us, tell us where you think you might have lost your treasured possession and we just might be able to help.

Our UK Ringfinders Network Members charge a small fee to cover our time, our fuel to get there and as long as you have permission for us to search the area that you lost your treasured item, we will do our very best to find it.

Below you will see the UK Ringfinders Network Members currently available to help you to find your lost item.

Cheshire Ringfinder – Nick Detects

Hello, My name is Nick, I am based in Cheshire. if you need my help in finding a lost item of jewellery then please do get in touch. I am an experienced metal detectorist who can, hopefully, help you to recover your lost item.

I charge a £20 call out fee, if I find your lost item then you are welcome to offer any additional reward that you should feel appropriate.

I cover all of Cheshire, you just need to make sure that the landowner agrees to me searching for your lost item. Contact me on nick@swingbeepdigrepeat.com to enquire further

Are You A Metal Detectorist Who Can Help Someone To Find a Lost and Treasured Item?

If you are an experienced metal detector user who can take some time out to help someone to recover a lost ring or other treasured item of jewellery, we want to hear from you. We want you to join our team, our network of UK Ringfinders. It might be a lucrative sideline for you. Make a small charge for your services, for your time, and enjoy seeing the look on someones face when you find their lost treasure.

Currently there is no charge to be a member of our UK Ringfinders Network.

Typical fees you could charge for your ringfinder services are between £20 and £50 per search, depending on distance traveled and time taken. You might decide not to make a charge at all, but that is up to you. Seeing the look on peoples faces when you return a treasured item is incredible, and of course you might just get a new permission out of it as well!

If you want to be a member of the UK Ringfinders Network then email me with your name, address, contact number and a profile photo with a brief description of your expected fees to search for the lost item and the area you can cover. Send your application to nick@swingbeepdigrepeat.com with “UK Ringfinder Network Application” as the subject line.

I look forward to hearing from you.

More About Me

I first started metal detecting back in the 1970’s as a young teenager on the beaches of Cleveland in North East England, in particular the stretch of sand that runs from the cliffs at Saltburn, northwards along the beach at Marske to Redcar and on to end at South Gare. My metal detector was a very basic C-Scope IB100, which was their most basic entry level machine, it only had two knobs to twiddle with and no display at all. My headphones plugged into a socket the back and that was it. I wandered along this stretch of beach for hours finding coins and bullets and other random finds. I still have a box of these finds somewhere.

Then I left school, began working and eventually moved to Manchester and then to Cheshire where I got married and started a family. My career was mostly sales based either selling office equipment to businesses or cars to individual buyers. At one time I was selling Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and Porsche but that’s another story.

I then became totally hooked and interested in local history. That started when I bought an old church and converted it into a family home. I bought a grandfather clock to stand in the hallway, it was made locally and I became intrigued my the makers name and began to research. This led me down a rabbit hole that I never returned from. I began to collect anything to do with the local history of the town where I now lived, photographs, documents, books, artifacts, in fact anything at all relating to the history of the town where I lived. I built up probably the largest collection of its type. I joined a local history society, I then became its chairman and spokesperson. This led to me writing local history articles for the local newspaper and then writing a yet to be published, book on local history. I set up a local history Facebook group that I still run, it has more than 10,000 members and I also advise my local county council on history matters and give history walks around the town centre.

This ultimately led me back to metal detecting. I was able to use my position and status as a local published historian to gain access to land to detect on, land than others are not able to detect on, such as a public park that was created on the site of a Roman Fort.

When I first decided to create this website it was just to chronicle my detecting exploits, to record my finds and to help and to advise others, it has since grown into where it is today.