A woman has expressed her shock after being reunited with a wedding ring she lost while gathering potatoes in Scotland's Western Isles five decades ago.
Peggy MacSween, who lost the ring in the late 1960s, thought she would never see it again after the band slipped from her finger on Benbecula.
However, fellow islander Donald MacPhee learned of the mystery of the missing ring and offered to find it with his trusty metal detector.
Mr MacPhee, who runs Benbecula's Nunton House Hostel, discovered it after searching an area where the potato patch was for three long days, digging 90 holes in the process.
Before the miraculous finding, he also unearthed rubbish including old metal, drinks cans and ring pulls before finding the once cherished wedding ring, reports BBC News.
Mrs MacSween, 86, said: "He just came to the door and said: 'I have something to show you'. It was the ring.
"I couldn't believe it, but there it was. I thought I would never see it again."
The ring, from her wedding in July 1958, was originally when she was gathering potatoes on Liniclate Machair, an area of sandy coastal meadow in the late 1960s.
She added: "I was shaking the sand out of my gloves and the ring disappeared. I didn't know until I got home."
"I went out once or twice to look for it, but there was no way of finding it."
Her husband John died a few years ago but had bought her a replacement while the couple were on holiday. Until then, she had been wearing her mother's wedding ring.
