After a few evenings of walking around the site without success, Mostert found the ring last Friday. He was in a very different place than the family had imagined.
“I walked past the fence, but suddenly felt I had to walk a little more to the center.” His metal detector kicked in. “So I started digging. Pretty deep, about 30 centimeters,” he indicates with his hands. “Until I suddenly saw something gold at the bottom of the pit. A ring. It won’t be, was the first thing I thought.”
At home he could study the ring well. “There was actually no need to clean, because gold stays clean. I saw a girl’s name and a date. I checked that with the son.” Trijntje. 20-4-1955 can be read in the ring. “That must have been our engagement date,” Fikse thinks.
Priceless
After the discovery, Mostert contacted Fikse and returned the ring to her. “That I can still experience this, this is really very special,” she says. “It’s really him. We had chosen a slightly thicker ring so it wouldn’t look like it was worn out. I never would have thought this.”
For Mostert it is the best find he has made so far. “An old coin is wonderful to find, but here I have found emotion. And emotion is priceless.”
–
