Metal detecting

[rodp]

We need a meet Then we can all compare the tat we've dug up Personally, I don't care what I dig so long as it's interesting to me. Not bothered if it's 200bc or 2014.

Gypo, if you find you don't like digging specialise in stone age stuff

[gypo]

You never know you might find a Monks ring!
G

[rodp]

You never know you might find a Monks ring!
G

If I do I certainly ain't trying to find it with the propointer He might like it

[gypo]

yep, I've got one. I enjoy metal detecting, it's just the folk who do it I can't get on with I just like finding stuff, don't care what it is, but the serious detectorists get all anal about what they find.
I just can't find the interest in someone shouting "I've found a Roman whatever from 36ad minted in bath by Ted the groat on the 15th December and he struck it with his new tool with his left hand whilst drinking a pint of carling" I DON'T CARE History just doesn't interest me to that extent.

It could be the spark plug from an old Massey for all I care, I just want to find something

Nice when you find someone's wedding ring or engagement ring for them though

I've also got written permission to search the beach / dunes (inland) at shell island, now that may turn something up, whether spendable or meltable (?)

Be warned though, you dig a lot and just find scrap metal.

rodp, We where on Shell Island this summer in our old camper van, Nice place I imagine you could find some bits and bobs left by thee campers, mostly tent pegs though
Whats your best find so far mate?
Cheers
G

[rodp]

Some coins and tokens, Roman I believe. Everyone was all over them but to me they're just a curiosity. They're somewhere in the garage now I just like finding them, Roman or not doesn't matter, it's the fact they're hundreds of years old and not seen the light of day since some poor peasant lost his wages

Tokens were paid in lieu of money and could only be spent at certain places, usually the employers shop Give it with one hand and take it back with the other Times don't really change do they

Oh, and an engagement ring for someone who called us out. She'd had it made with the gold from her grans wedding ring and lost it in the garden the day they arranged the wedding. She took this as a bad omen message from her gran and was going to call the wedding off
Took me two hours in the rain (she put me in the wrong place ) but I found it. She then obviously thought this was a sign her gran had OK'd the wedding by letting me find it

Came away £50 better off after arguing the fact I didn't want any more and that was plenty thank you very much

[gypo]

I'm looking forward to getting out and having a go, I do a fair bit of salmon fishing but the season has just finished. I see it a bit like fishing, you don't know I what your going to catch
I've been watching a few vids on YouTube on the garrett 250 on how to work it, settings etc. what settings do you generally have yours on?
Cheers
G

[rodp]

Start with it set to detect everything then knock it down dependant on ground (and fedupness of digging)
In all honesty the best way is to just go and try different setting, until you know what sound is what metal you need to try the lot

[gypo]

Ok cheers
G

[PESCA]

Enjoying the thread, fellas

If there was enough interest in this, we could maybe give you a dedicated section. Wouldn't want it to die on it's sorry little ass though.

Any more members out there who are into metal detecting?

George

[hairyyoda]

Hello all.
I lost a Victorinox knife once somewhere between where I was cutting down a pile of trees to make way for a pond and the nearest access about 400 yards away back to a farm track. It bothered me for days, bloody good knife, to good to be lost somewhere. Didn't think that I would ever see it again untill a friends 7 year old son said that he would look for it at the weekend, sure enough armed with his metal detector and two adults in tow for support he found the knife in less than 10 minutes. Very impressed.
I am going to look around and buy a secondhand model of the same detector as the guy in Scotland who found the Viking hoard a while ago. I wish.
Don't really care if I only find a few horseshoes just think that it will be interesting and time-out to wander about. Thanks Phil