port talbot / coil envy

[dances with badgers]

hello peeps ,just got back from port talbot beach.i only found a 1935 viccy penny ,2 types of lead 303 bullets and half a ton of scrap but a guy from the rhondda who had a minelab with the largest coil i have ever seen pulled out 2 gold wedding rings and told me he found another 2 a few weeks earlier.i think i've got coil envy.lol  

[sandpiper]

Hi mike
What machine do you use ? .A good multifrequency machine -one of the minelabs, explorer, etrac  or sovereign will give great depth s even with standard coils .

On a different subject I once Knew a Boy  called Michael Miles from Llangynwydd near Maesteg who at about the age of 12 found a hoard of gold coins (sovereigns I think) in a deserted mill near the Tylers Arms pub  in lower LLangynwydd - its a lucky name

sandpiper

[dances with badgers]

hello .i have got a whites surfmaster pi which i am learning to use on the beaches but on a wierder note my grandmothers family come from llangynwyd.strange.my uncle who was called john miles lived there for a while too

[sandpiper]

Hi Mike
Could be a distant relative    .
The surfmaster is a great machine Ive got one along with a deepstar which is incredably deep .They are both pulse machines and on clean beaches they excell however Port Talbot is a dirty beach -years and years of dumping ,  iron slag  and alsorts was dumped when they flatened the dunes and built up the promenade it makes using pulse machines very difficult .I now use Minelabs because of the descrimination and I can cover a larger area without digging scrap and killing my back .If you do a lot of beaches then a 2nd hand minelab will save you a lot and make detecting much more pleasant . All the best Sandpiper

[dances with badgers]

cheers sandpiper ,my cousin has offered to borrow one of his machines when i go detecting with him next weekend,he has aload of them but prefers his minelab sovereign on the beaches.i will have to start saving for a minlab i guess.catch you at the beach one day mate.good luck and happy hunting

[TheLoveDoc]

well funny you guys should mention it ..... i live in llangynwyd lol.... i remember my old boss telling me the story about the box of gold coins being found too when i was a paperboy. 

[dances with badgers]

 there seems to be something a bit mystical a llangynwyd.i take my mam there now and again to visit graves of relatives.lovely little village

[TheLoveDoc]

yeah mike its a pretty nice place to live  with a fare amount of history in the area. Ive been in the fields around the cemetry mate, but suprisingly not really found alot of stuff in them. The other fields just a little further up the road though have produced some lead shot ... old coins and various bits n bobs mate. The views are awesome too.

[dances with badgers]

we have a family heirloom which is said to be the chair that wil hopkins used to sit in by the fire when he was writing his hymns.it was given to my grandmother as a gift when she moved from the area.she used to clean one of the pubs and and always fancied it.i think i will donate it to st fagans