What to do if you find gold rings....

[wondering]

Hello everybody, I have never found gold but I down the sands again for 5 days so hopefully I can pull something good out.. What I am wondering is if I do find anything gold or platinum (he hopes lol ) do I have to hand them in or something the like.

All information and views are welcome and appreciated

Thanks again

George 

[nobby]

Yes, you have to hand them over to me to look after  

[troutmasterfunk]

If nobby isn't about you can hand them over t me...

[celticspikey]

Take no notice of Nobby or Mark let me have them, I will endeavour to find the legal owners, and if not I will really look after them ...until the Gold prices go way up and if I fall on really hard times I will sell them and spend the money very wisely  .......

[sinky]

Don't tell anyone

[marknewbury1]

put it in your pocket and keep it for a rainy day

[dingdong]

Ang on!!! Shouldn't we get back on track lads.......👍

[Resurgam]

Have a look at the conditions stipulated with your Crown Permit for beach detecting. 

[Cymro]

Conditions . . . 

You've actually read the conditions . . . ?

[Chef Geoff]

I find it quite worrying why no one has given you a straight answer on this If they don't know then they really shouldn't be allowed to use a detector lol but I think it's more a fear of sounding hypocritical as most of us know what you "should" do but few do it, and I included myself in that, so by the law of the land if you find valuables, in this case a ring, you have to take reasonable steps to find the owner which is satisfied by handing it in to the lost property dept at a police station, I will say I have done this on several occasions especially years ago when I was beach detecting and on every occasion I received the ring back as unclaimed however most police forces no longer deal with lost property and so it's difficult, if not impossible, to know what satisfies the "take reasonable steps to find the owner" part of the law Some councils now have a lost property section but I think that a post regarding finding a ring on a certain beach at a certain time on Facebook would have more chance and possibly satisfy that clause, one other clause is "to permanently deprive" so if you find a one off personalised gold ring and go straight to a jewellers and sell it after which the rightful owner sees it then you would be done for "Theft by finding".
 

[Chef Geoff]

Just to comment on Resurgam's post about T&C of the Crown Estates permit, it's worth having a read and is quite an eye opener as in reality it only applies to the wet sand ie between mean high water and mean low water so when your detecting that lovely dry stuff at the top of the beach you could be breaking the law by not having permission

[troutmasterfunk]

A fine kettle of worms lol

[Resurgam]

                     I could be mistaken, but I thought that I read ..... all valuables found remain the property of the Crown Estates. Or have I misread it? 

[Chef Geoff]

No you haven't misread it Chris but that's quite normal and exactly the same as permission on farmland all items found belong to the land owner just because you found them doesn't give you title over them and that's why you should always show the landowner/farmer the finds otherwise it's theft unless they have told you they don't want to see the finds. Crown Estates do state they will split any valuable finds 50/50 so once again quite normal

[Resurgam]

Thanks for the clarification Geoff. Now for that beach treasure! 

Oh; and it's all tax free!