Update on the last 3-4 weeks of detecting finds. All finds were from pasture land within 5 miles of my home. Some were from a local park which has been hammered by detectors over the last 20 years and now no detectorists bother going there. Others were from the grounds an old mansion house and the surrounding fields. Some of the best finds came from the fields around my house which I had already been over with my previous detector.
The Minelab Etrac which I use seems able to find great items among trash when I use the smaller stock coil (11") when other detectors miss the good stuff.
I use a 18 x 15 Detech SEF coil for most of the pasture land as it covers more ground and detects deeper than the standard coil.
I always go "Slow and low" as was advised in the guide book I got at the time of buying my E-trac (2 months ago).
For pasture land I tend to hunt in 'Relic' mode with a few small changes to audio setting and in parks, I generally use the 'Coins' setting, switching to all metal with discrmination for Fe values of 27 and below to check targets to save me digging lots of rusted iron. I do still dig some rusty stuff, but not as much as when I first started.
Quite often a good coin will come out of the same hole as a rusted nail which demonstrates the Etrac's 'see-though' ability well.
Once the crops come out of the fields, I will get onto some awesome sites which have never been detected and the really old finds (hopefully including hammered slver / gold coins) should roll in.
Thanks for watching.
Hello this is Richard aka Pond Guru with an update
of my recent metal detecting finds.
We'll start with the pre-decimal stuff in poor condition.
Pre-decimal pennies ranging from the 1800s up
to the mid 60s, a few Georgian pennies,
half pennies and a tub full of general rubbish
half pennies, farthings, all sorts of stuff.
All in pretty poor condition.
I've given some of it a quick scrub with a scrubby brush.
If it doesn't look like it's going to be suitable for me,
display case, it just goes in the pot.
I would say in there, in about, I don't know,
three or four weeks, there's probably 120, 130 coins maybe.
Not in very good nick, but it's nice to find some older coins.
With modern coins, I'm not going to get all these coins out
because everybody knows what the current currency looks like.
One pences, two pences, fives, tens,
twenties, pounds, all of that lot, but...
That's quite a heavy pot, and I'll probably just take it up
to the supermarket and weigh it in in one of the cash machines.
So I would reckon this probably is 25-30 quid there or something,
or thereabouts in the last three or four weeks.
This is where it starts to get semi-interesting,
if you're interested in metal detecting.
I found a National Fire Service button,
dating from the Second World War, which is in great nick.
Also a miniature cannon.
which dates from georgian to victorian times.
Apparently these used to sit on a little carriage
with wheels on and everything and they could actually be fired.
Most of the lads in the
metal detecting club haven't found them in such good condition
and so large. Many of them have
found them but they've had the barrels blown out
or the backs blown out where they've packed too
much charge in or packed the little ball in too tight
and the things just exploded. Apparently
children used to fire these in the days before health and safety.
A really old thing, possibly
Possibly the only thing that I found at a local park is...
That, which seems to have a medieval design on.
The lads in the club thought it was maybe off a horse's bridle
or something similar, but nobody was really sure.
It looks pretty old. It's reasonably interesting.
We also found some lead tokens in the local fields.
These were given to the workforce
in the days when everybody seemed to be addicted to cider and beer.
Every day, people working
in the fields would go to the local landowner,
put their hand out, give them a token.
At the end of the week, they'd exchange the tokens for money.
That would ensure that they didn't just get mortal
and lie around in the fields all week.
These are the finds that are, you know,
actually very old or worth something.
There's a James, what the hell is it,
James the sixth Scottish hammered two pence.
It's in pretty poor condition,
you might just be able to make out the two little dots near
the lion's tail. Dates from about early 1600s.
Hammered copper so it's not in very good condition.
There's an 1816
George the third silver sixpence,
Queen Victoria 1898 threepence,
George the fifth silver sixpence, 1930,
George the sixth threepence, 1939,
it's reasonably valuable that one,
probably about 20 quid,
Victorian sixpence, 1893, and a George
the fifth sixpence, which is 1819,
sorry 1919, and last but not least there's a
Perfect condition,
one shilling George V silver coin from 1915.
That's probably the one I'm most pleased
with because you'd think that one had just been pressed.
Absolutely perfect.
There'll be a picture following this of all the best finds.
Before I go, there is actually some other stuff
which was on the next tray down in my coin case,
which I forgot about.
I don't know how I forgot about it
because it's probably the best things I've found.
But there's a 1945 two shillings.
Again, perfect condition.
There's a George V Florin
from 1929, again,
another very nice coin.
And there's a George V Half Crown,
which is a pretty big coin, nice condition.
All the silver coins have been cleaned with a toothbrush,
given a rub with Silvo, just to shine them up.
I know it reduces the value, but I've got no intention of selling them.
Makes them nicer to look at.
That's definitely it, I think.
I think that's all I found apart from...
Loads of crap which I've thrown straight in the bin.
Thanks for watching.
See you next time.
