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Here are 4 hours detecting with the Deus in a local park that is about to have some tennis courts and running track built . It was good fun and just shows what parks can hold ;) the brooch shown is a costume piece stamped Gesgesch  and abbreviated form of Gesetzlich Geschutzt. (Legally protected ,copyrighted, patented) a shame the stones are not real :o :o

hi paul    it  looks like you had a good day

That's a good show Paul ;) Well found mate

I want a park.  That's more coins than I found all through last year. S'pose most of them were quite shallow though Paul.
Pretty good going for 4 hours even at 1 inch.  Well done that man.

Val

Thanks guys it was fun , I know they had a flower show there for the last 60 years. Val most of the coins were 4-5 inches well at least the pennies and threepenny bits the rest shallower. Deus programm 1 basic.  ;)

Wow! and double Wow Paul that looks like 4 hours of fun not so many of those locations left now mores the pitty :-\  I would have said children were most likely the last owners as no sixpences and only one shilling which could have been a 5p when lost ;)

Congratulations buddy,"that's almost a Hoard!!!well found.

I parklife

Thats a good haul Paul, but that definitely looks like an entry ticket to the BBC [ Bad Back Club ]  :o

Not bad - in my local park (on a good day) I reckon on about minimum wage for detecting, although I've been there often enough recently that that's dropped off.

Great number of old pennies, but like my park detecting, not so many 1/2ds - I get very little silver in the parks I'm in - in one place I found a small scatter of 14 pre decimals and none were silver more's the pity.

Unfortunately they've decided to dig half the park up (to a depth of 5 foot) to put some flood defences in - last time I went out I only found pre-decimal - hit a bit of a hot spot, but I usually only have an hour or so to detect there.

wow you had a good day mate.well done

hi paul i only been out 3 times   [still learning]   going by my rate of finds, it will take me about 10 yrs to find that much, lol   well done,    regards  gary.

Nice going for a day's detecting; yer spade must have been redhot!

I got the opportunity to detect a building project on an old sports ground last year and was amazed at how productive it was. Despite the can-slaw and coin-slaw I never came away without loads of decimal and predecimal coins. There were also other interesting finds to be had; pocket watch fragments, AA shell drive ring segments, even an old horse brass and some harness fittings.

It reminds me of the park I used to detect, there were coins galore :)

Its been years since I detected a park, clearly there is lots left to find and good fun.......and the spade was glowing a wee bit ;)

Hi chainsaw, kept me out of trouble for a while ;)

Cheers Dale, took me back to the old days when most of us cut our teeth on parks. ;)

Cheers Geoff that's a good point you make on the children losses I never really thought about it to be honest, I'm sure your rite ;)  25-30 years ago most of us started out on parks when there was very little resistance from councils and the like, I'm sure you were the same, clearly this little park near in  Wellow ( near Bath) had not been detected much in the past...good fun but I'll take the flinty fields any day :o ;)

Good old days Ben, trouble these days are the bylaws as I'm sure you know ;)

Your not wrong Dylan, had a few co- dydramol after that session mate ;) ;)

And so it should!  ;D