Metal detecting (2 Viewers)

[ShiftZZ]

Anyone doing any?

Any tips on equipment, affordable.

Ta

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

No, but if you watch the "Detectorist" on the iplayer you may pick up some tips or at the very least have good laugh, some quality actors for a low key series.
Mike.

 

[dawsey]

Loved that show. RIP Diana Rigg.

 

[bubble63]

Have a look on Amazon
search ‘Garrett’
had one for a few years now , the problem is no so much the detector but the permission to detect
we tended to do beaches with the kids

 

[Realist]

Just sold my Deus2 had a CTX3030 as well but work and caravan comes first.

Detecting has a big following and it’s big business these days, loads of organisations digs about.

Do I miss it, no I like my arse to be warm lol.

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[jockaneezer]

The Garret Ace range are popular starter machines, I have not used one, but have a Garret pinpointer and it's a decent bit of kit.
My old Minelab Quattro was an upgrade from my Viking detector, but technology has moved on quite a bit since then but I had a limited budget !
Decide where you want to detect and what for (beaches/underwater or farmland for example) and that will help narrow down your choices, but a second hand Garret Ace would be a good starting point and you could easily sell it on if it doesn't suit ?
Jaws might have some ideas ?

 

[Lazyboy]

Minelab X-Terra-Pro. £299 Just bought one for my wife. Very highly recommended. Depends what you want to spend. Minelab make excellent detectors. Talk to Graeme at :-
www.uneartheduk.co.uk.
Very helpful and extremely knowledgeable and a really nice guy. Delivery included in the price on most detectors.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Have this one, a half decent spec without going paying out to much.

Minelab Vanquish 540 pro

Chap I know has 500 acres on the outskirts of Chichester, he has said I can go there as nobody else has been on it.
The edge of one field is less than a mile from the largest intact Roman Villa in the UK.

Not been yet as have had other things on but will get around to it.

 

[PaulyP]

Don’t be like the Irish metal detectorist, dug down 6 feet before he realised he had metal toe caps on his boots.

 

[jockaneezer]

Don’t be like the Irish metal detectorist, dug down 6 feet before he realised he had metal toe caps on his boots.

I picked up a feint signal in the field behind my house (site of a Roman marching camp) and proceeded to dig. The hole was getting bigger and deeper, but the signal was still there, I would normally have given up on such an "iffy" signal, but for the fact of the camp's existence and I reckoned it must be "something big" so kept digging. I ended up with a hole about 3 feet in diameter and getting on for four foot deep when I struck something metallic. I scraped away the soil and exposed the top of a steel curved object, (first thought was a UXB from it's shape !), as I paused for breath, standing in the hole, I looked directly across the field in front of me and noticed a small gap in the distant hedge, with a white pole with an orange marker on it's top, and I realised I'd dug down to the main gas supply pipe for this area !
Someone told me that they send a small electric current down these pipes either to help with monitoring their condition or to prevent corrosion and it must have been this that was giving me the weak signal ?
Some Italian students came over one year and carried out an archaeological dig on the site, but only found a few bits of broken pottery. Others have detected the field, but as far as I know, I'm the only one to have found a coin there, a rather poorly looking bronze.
There are a lot of Roman sites around here (I'm within 2 miles of Hadrian's Wall, but nearly all the sites are "scheduled" which means they're out of bounds to detect and in the Middle Ages, this area was covered by the vast Inglewood Forest, which didn't have many inhabitants or settlements, so decent finds are few and far between, but we do have some Viking derived villages that would be worth investigating ?

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[BusyBuilder]

I tried it during Covid, had a Minelab 800 and all I ever found were bits of Sunderlands and possibly Catalinas, the odd cap badge (RAF) bullets of all sizes live and otherwise, old pennies and crap.

 

[TDub49]

Anyone doing any?

Any tips on equipment, affordable.

Ta

There are risks . . . .

Metal detectorists jailed for conspiring to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins

Craig Best and Roger Pilling sentenced to more than five years for trying to illegally sell coins worth £766,000

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gooney]

Don’t be like the Irish metal detectorist, dug down 6 feet before he realised he had metal toe caps on his boots.

PaulyP Few years ago I’d visited one of our converting Mills in Germany over some quality issues, returning to Frankfurt airport I got stuck in traffic jams, by the time I got into the airport it was touch and go if I’d catch my flight, I legged it and jumped to the front of the queue for the metal detector, went through and failed, panicking turned out hand luggage, belt off, emptied pockets etc, still failed.
Steel toecap safety shoes on for walking around the Mill. Flight was delayed thankfully.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

What amazes me is some of the big finds have been on fields that have been detected loads of times by clubs yet on a given day someone can go and dig up a hoard

 

[monzer]

What other kit is recommended for this hobby apart from the machine itself?

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[Janine]

What other kit is recommended for this hobby apart from the machine itself?

A good lightweight spade