Erwin de Jong in action. He found a wedding ring that had been missing for half a century. Own picture
De Jong, a milking robot mechanic in daily life, has been an avid hobbyist with the metal detector for the past six years. He regularly goes out to look for special objects that are hidden in the ground. With success: he found fibulas, coins and belt buckles from Roman times, among other things. “This is a terpen area, Franeker was already inhabited in the year zero and you can see that in the things I find.”