A woman pulled up a carrot in her garden and found her lost wedding ring wedged around it.

Lena Påhlsson had misplaced the ring 16 years previously. A search of her home failed to locate it.

But while tending her garden, Mrs Påhlsson pulled up a carrot and noticed something. She was amazed to find it was “wearing” the white gold, diamond-encrusted ring. She thinks that a pet sheep may have swallowed it while feeding off kitchen scraps, depositing it in compost at her home in Mora, Sweden.

She and her husband Ola are just happy to have it back.

“We’re keeping it in a safe place,” she told a local newspaper.