Metal Detecting

[buckshot 53]

i have the garrett euro ace not a bad machine to be honest, i also a a XP goldmaxx power

what i now use found plenty bits n bobs but still waiting for the hoard to pop up

great hobby if you like the countryside

[mackem 23,832]

Mackem i tried pming you but your box must be full. Try regtons mate, they will tune it for you i bet.

Thanks mate,i will give regtons a call tomorrow see if they can give my machine a tune up.

[mackem 23,832]

Buckshot,theres a stretch of the wear i saw on timeteam once where they threw votiv offerings,two guys found large amounts of roman,ever found any up there?

[steve66 3,086]

Think its on youtube mackem , remember seeing a piece about 2 blokes diving in the river in the middle of durham , there finds where amazing

[mackem 23,832]

Think its on youtube mackem , remember seeing a piece about 2 blokes diving in the river in the middle of durham , there finds where amazing

Thatsbthe one steve,they didnt even use a detector on the footage i saw,just dry suits and into the water which was fairly shallow,if you had a decent detector in that general area or to whatever distance downstream you would have an interesting session.

[Plucky1 1,119]

I once found a roman coin by eye. It had surfaced and was sat on top of the soil in a pea field..

As it happens the rabbits had eaten the peas off this part of the field

I found a Roman offering bowl made of what looked like bronze with 3 parallel lines around the rim with a hare on each side,walking along on some permission that had been turned over for the first time in my lifetime and that's 58yrs,we had just bolted a fox from a small drain made of very tiny bricks and about 20yds away lying on the top covered in clay was a bowl that I nearly trod on,I picked it up laughing saying here's a Roman bowl,upon getting home I threw the bag in the shed and forgot about it,I used to tread over it for at least a year then whilst in London the wife and I went the British museum,in there was the same bowl,upon arriving home I went down the shed and washed the clay off it inside and out,next day I took it locally to Chester museum to have it appraised,it was between and 150ad,they paid me 350pounds for it,they asked where it was found but I never gave the true location saying I dug it up in my wife's parents garden,apparently they have never found an east gate connecting Wirral,Meols,etc to Chester,one day when I buy a metal detector I will look on the fields around my permission, the laugh for me is that I quite often see metal detecting clubs who pay the farmer but they are nowhere near to my find,I took some pics of the drain bricks and they are tiny handmade things,I also looked on google earth and you can see what have been large buildings shapes in the soil,WM Edited December 11, 2016 by Plucky1

[byron 1,093]

a lad who's known to me has got a gold stater on ebay at the moment..the Lincolnshire wolds is heaving with em....lol..........

[byron 1,093]

nice little hoard found not far from me..

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiUy9mGgO3QAhUJM8AKHTICBPEQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodcollins.com%2Fwordpress%2Fthe-killingholme-hoard-a-first-hand-account-of-its-discovery&usg=AFQjCNFLsMiBSaTG4QdtBjJJ18pXweWs4A&sig2=rPpuH2f7oy6XlGmDoU72gg

[steve66 3,086]

When i first started , l used to throw alot away as scrap, now i relise alot where quiet good finds , medevil strap ends ect lol

[steve66 3,086]

nice little hoard found not far from me..

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiUy9mGgO3QAhUJM8AKHTICBPEQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodcollins.com%2Fwordpress%2Fthe-killingholme-hoard-a-first-hand-account-of-its-discovery&usg=AFQjCNFLsMiBSaTG4QdtBjJJ18pXweWs4A&sig2=rPpuH2f7oy6XlGmDoU72gg

had quiet abit from the humber banks , messy job though

[byron 1,093]

it is down that end mate..love going up on the wolds and looking down on the humber,,like to visualize them Vikings and romans sailing up her..the locals must have been terrified of them scenes..

[torchey 1,202]

Found a nice little james 1st half groat today,,,happy days

[byron 1,093]

thing is with detecting,,apart from the strange looks of people......lol.[my inferiority complex forces me to go out at night!!!..the thought of that find and feel of maybe the last person to have touched this,was maybe whatever years ago..poaching and detecting sorta go hand in hand..when permission is scarce of course........

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

thing is with detecting,,apart from the strange looks of people......lol.[my inferiority complex forces me to go out at night!!!..the thought of that find and feel of maybe the last person to have touched this,was maybe whatever years ago..poaching and detecting sorta go hand in hand..when permission is scarce of course........

If you could attach your coils to your feet you could say you were just testing out your new snow shoes..

[smithie 2,429]

Mine was like this http://www.artancient.com/antiquities-for-sale/collections/ancient-coins-sale/gold-coins/ancient-ambiani-celtic-gold-gallic-war-stater-coin-58-bc.html