The quest was gone for a while, and it came back. I was going to Sam everyday to pick up the hunt skeletons quest several times a day. So I know it wasn't being offered for awhile.

I thought when it was offered again, they had fixed the bug, but apparently it hasn't been fixed yet, or we just haven't stumbled across the right dig spot.

well i am here to solve this once and for all. i just found the earring, it is between two rocks across from Lucinda by the guy cutting wood. dug something up and finished the earring quest.

Woot that's good news :) They finally put it in the game! lol

i have done the quest like 4 times now for money but the second part is kill two skeletons to get another earring

Just found Sam Seabone's earring!

im with darth chewee on this one.i looked here for help on were to find the ering(or e-arr-ing as ive heard people say) and found nobody could find it. so then i dropped the quiz. then my mac glitched or somthing and there were no buildings, just people. so i could se all the landscape, it was pretty cool. but anyways i saw this spot were i could dig so i went back got the quest dug and it was there. then u gotta get the skeleton like was stated before.:12_1_138:

I found mine here
 

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I don't know if it counts for this quest but as I have been progressing through the game I have noticed that these 'dig' missions are not 'static drop' which means you can find one spot. Dig, wait 2minutes? (how ever long the spot's respawn is set for) then dig again. This tactic does work and I have completed the
"Buried Portraits" mission using only one dig sight for each island