Our Digs

Lost & Found searches.

If you've lost something precious outdoors, perhaps a wedding ring in the garden or keys in the long grass, we may be able to help, and we do not charge for our time.

How it works

Get in touch with as much detail as you can: where the item was lost, roughly when, what it's made of, the ground conditions and so on. We'll do our best to send out one or two members within a few days.

The satisfaction of a good outcome

There are few things more rewarding for a detectorist than returning a lost heirloom, a wedding ring, a christening bracelet, an old family keepsake, to its owner. Many of our members regard these searches as some of the most satisfying work they do, and they volunteer their time gladly.

What we ask of you

Be on hand when we visit, if at all possible.
If we're successful, a small donation to Help for Heroes is always welcome (never expected).

Get in touch

Email admin@midweeksearchers.co.uk or call Mike Barker on 07904 975420.

Gold pendant set with a blue sapphire, photographed from both sides beside a measuring scale — The recovered pendant: a gold, laurel-wreath disc set with a blue sapphire, photographed after cleaning.

A Recovery Story

Ten years in the ground, home in an afternoon.

A farmer's wife had long since given up hope. Her gold pendant, a sapphire set within a laurel wreath, had slipped from its chain somewhere on the farm more than ten years earlier. Countless searches had turned up nothing and the loss had quietly settled into family history.

While the club was detecting on the land, one of our members was told the story and asked whether anything could still be done after all that time. He worked the likely ground carefully and methodically all day without a single promising signal, and it was only at the very end, on the walk back to the cars, that he swept the coil one last time across the trampled turf and the pendant came up out of the soil, a decade of burial having done remarkably little to dull it.

Returned to its owner the same day, it is the sort of find that never appears in a catalogue and matters far more than most that do. If you have lost something that means a great deal, it is rarely too late to ask.