Metal detectorist finds missing wedding ring on the beach

Lost and hound! Metal detectorist finds missing wedding ring on the beach after it was spotted in a mobile phone photo of the couple’s dog playing on the sand

• Emily Wolstenholme lost her husband’s ring while he was swimming in the sea
• She then saw the lost ring in the background of a picture she took of her dog
• Metal detectorist Brendan Sansom offered to look for it and was successful 

A metal detectorist has come to a woman’s rescue by locating her husband’s missing wedding ring on the beach after it was spotted in the background of a photo of their dog playing on the sand.

Emily Wolstenholme, 35, dropped the ring after her husband Wayne, 34, asked her to take care of it while he went for a swim with his wife’s sister at Sunny Sands beach in Folkestone, Kent, on April 4.

The ring fell out of Ms Wolstenholme’s pocket when she took out her phone to take a photo of their dog Alan.

Ms Wolstenholme only realised that she had misplaced her ring when she got back home, but while looking through photos of their dog, she spotted the ring glistening on the sand in the background. 

After using her phone’s location feature to get the co-ordinates and asking for help on social media, metal detectorist Brendan Sansom offered to carry out a rescue mission. 

Metal detectorist Brendan Sansom came to a woman’s rescue after locating her husband’s missing wedding ring on the beach

Ms Wolstenholme only realised that she had misplaced her ring when she got back home, but while looking through photos of their dog, she spotted the ring glistening on the sand in the background (circled)

Miraculously, the ring was located after just three days by Mr Sansom and his friend Kris Alden, who found the valuable band just 45 metres from where it was dropped.

HR worker Ms Wolstenholme, who has been married to Wayne for 14 years, said: ‘In the time between I lost it and it was found, the tide would have been in and out countless times.

‘The sea can do a lot with a tiny ring, so when I saw Brendan’s post saying that his friend had found it for us, we were over the moon.’

Describing how the saga unfolded, Ms Wolstenholme explained: ‘My husband and sister have been going sea swimming for a while now, so I went to watch and took the dog.

‘My husband asked me to hold onto his ring so I zipped it up in my pocket.

‘But when I got my phone out to take a picture of the dog, it must have fallen out because we got home and it wasn’t in there anymore.

‘We were absolutely gutted, and I was sure we’d never see it again because of the high tide.’

Ms Wolstenholme (with her dog Alan) said she and her husband were ‘over the moon’ after finding the wedding ring

The ring was located after just three days by Mr Sansom and his friend Kris Alden, who found the valuable band just 45 metres from where it was dropped. Pictured: The Wolstenholmes

Emily and Wayne Wolstenholme (pictured) have been married for 14 years – but the HR worker joked she would not be allowed to look after her husband’s ring anymore

The couple were convinced they would never see the ring (pictured) again because of the high tide

Ms Wolstenholme hailed the ‘kindness of strangers’ as she thanked Mr Sansom and his friend for tacking down the ring.

She joked afterwards: ‘Needless to say I’m not allowed to look after his ring anymore.’ 

The couple were able to verify that the ring was definitely theirs because ‘different carats make different noises on the machine’.

‘That afternoon we drove round to pick it up and we couldn’t be more grateful – the kindness of strangers is amazing,’ Ms Wolstenholme added. 

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