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                   Having something of a glass back, following an industrial accident, I always try to take the upmost care when metal detecting an d gardening. Two weeks ago, I ran the Safari over one of my small permissions and then retreated to the static caravan to give the grandkids a bit of a holiday.

                  First four days we had the grand-daughter and then switched over to have the five year old grandson for the remainder of the week. Half way through the week my back gave out and it was almost impossible to stand, sit, and walk. Having eased off by this Wednesday; I was considerably more mobile and decided that today would be a good day for some gentle beach detecting.

                 Well; last night the gremlins got to work on my stomach and I was up half the night with the most horrendous stomach pains. Rolled out of bed this morning feeling a bit wan but the back was considerably better and I popped out to the beach after providing a hot drink and some toast for the wife.

                 Plenty of the usual WWII scrap, strange oddments, and one or two scrappy looking coins.
I spent as much time chatting with people who were interested in what I was doing, as I did actually detecting. Interestingly, I got a white metal ring with amber stones set in it. After thirty minutes in my finds bag the metal turned almost black. I recon that the ring is silver but have no idea of it's age.

                The ring looks as if it was made to match a silver/amber drop ear-ring that I found a quarter of a mile away, some time ago.

       Perhaps there is an other ear-ring, a bracelet, and a necklace just waiting in the sand for me!  8)

Here is the matching ear-ring!

Well done Chris, very nice!

Hi Will,
               I could hardly believe it when the ring popped out; having found the ear-ring a quarter of a mile away some time ago. I suppose that I should try for the rest of the set.
Any ideas on possible age?

Try some foil on the inside of it Chris, Amber isn't cheap so Id be surprised if it wasn't silver. Looks Victorian/Edwardian?

I have tried the spit and foil test Will and got a mild bad egg smell. Going to try cleaning them up when we get home next week.

nice find well searched  ;)

Very nice find Chris well done my friend  :).

nice ring,   ;)
I find that we do not see a lot of jewelry with amber
one gold ring with, since I found detects ....

always hoped for next

Ta  M8, not my first silver but definitely my first amber duo! 

Hi Richie,
                Val was right, the MineLab Safari loves silver. Going back soon to rescan the area more closely with the Safari and then run the CS4PI over the same area. I may be wasting my time,
but what the hell; it's worth at least one more go.  ::)

Really nice finds Chris. Wonder where they came from. They look to be fairly old, maybe 1930's.

I always said the safari loved silver.  Now I can honestly say the Deus loves silver foil  ::)  Must admit I enjoyed my last outing though.  One of my early permissions. Always turn something up. Amazing really.  I've been in that field with the Whites M6 the Safari and now the Fairy stick.

I remember some one saying once that there is no such thing as an empty field.

Nice finds... 👍 always nice to find silver...😁

Hey Val every field has something Good/great/amazing to be found just a shame that we are constricted by the depth our machine can go the soil conditions/contamination weather, crops and length of grass lol sometimes when all taken into consideration it's amazing we find what we actually find lol....🙈😂😁👍

Good morning Val,
                               you were right, but I can hardly understand why it should be so! Since setting the MineLab Safari loose on the sands at Talacre I have found silver, silver, gold plated silver, and silver with amber. I have, of course, had frustrating days when I exit the beach with little more than a finds bag full of WWII scrap. I took an eyes only walk yesterday afternoon and returned with 2.5 kg of .303 and .30 projectiles, copper shrapnel, and lead/antimony slugs.

                               Sometimes I wonder if some finds have their origins with holiday makers, service personnel, or shipwreck victims? You may recall me recently finding the back half of a silver cigarette case! I got to wondering if the cigarette case half may have been the personal possession of one of the fighter pilots that were killed when they crashed into the anti-invasion posts that used to cover the beach during the wartime years. If I could recover the front of the case, perhaps it would carry some identifying marks on it.

                              Going back tomorrow morning for a couple of hours rescanning two small area with the Safari, but will have to restrict the time due to the back playing up. I have found that using a long handled spades helps to ease the strain on the back but can't decide if my problem is muscular or skeletal.

                               Watch this space for further results!  ;)

                               

I would say well worth it Chris good luck my friend let me know how you get on  :)

                     Will do Richie. Should be back at the caravan by lunch time and will report on my luck; or lack of it!  :)

                    Well, made it to the beach early this morning and trudged directly to the spot where I found the silver/amber ring, only to find that the tides had dumped ton upon ton of sand onto the spot. Umph, so much for my plan to scan the area inch by inch, whilst hugging the sand with the coil and slowing down the sweep speed.

                     Spent the morning meandering here there and everywhere whilst listening to the gentle background hum of the Safari, and trying to understand the instruction to ignore the numbers and listen to the sound. The recent rains have flushed mud down the Dee and some of the large shingle patches were coated in the dark sticky stuff. Watched some of the bathers and kids struggling to negotiate large patches of mud. Some of them were ankle, calf, and knee deep in the darned stuff!

                      In amongst the WWII scrap I managed a couple of .303 brass cartridge cases, plenty of copper shrapnel, and a single .22 rim-fire cartridge case. Interestingly, I also noticed a large expanse of beach that appeared not to be contaminated with the WWII stuff and found it very strange not to hear the Safari making sounds like a demented flute player on speed. Sadly, not a single coin to be had all morning.  :'(

Never mind Chris, your intentions were good. ;)

Had the same thing happen to me last winter.  I took the dogs to the beach and thought Wow just look at the low patches, should come back and check it out.
Needless to say I didn't, not that afternoon but the next and you guessed it. We had a strong wind in the night and all the sand was back.

That muddy stuff is  foul.  There's a few patches of it at Saundersfoot and it's scary. Not that same as you described because it's there all the time. It's sort you sink in and can't get out of.

You didn't mention the rain. It chucked it down here all night and right through till mid afternoon. Were you lucky ?

                                       Rain? Well, it chucked it down all Saturday night and stopped Sunday morning; just in time for me to head to the beach. The sun was cracking the slates all morning and into the afternoon but it started raining again just as I got back to the caravan. Left for home at teatime and it rained all the way home.

                                      Despite the disappointment on the beach, the time spent aimlessly meandering this way and that educated me as to where some scrap free areas are. That is unless the next tide throws up an other million copper shrapnel shards onto what I believe to be
a scrap free zone!  :'(

                                     

Hi Chris
Sorry to hear the finds were very thin on the ground but I dare say the sanding in did not help. Better luck next time my friend I know how determined and patient you are  ;)

 

Hi Richie,
               heading back that way later this week and hopefully have a little more success. Any chance of you getting your head off the pillow and joining me?  ::)

Bank Holiday weekend could be busy Chris  ;).

I reckon on starting early, before most have had their breakfasts, and moving away from the busier sections of beach as the tourists arrive. Will probably only put in four hours; that is unless I strike it lucky and hit on a hoard of goodies hiding in the sand.

High tide by lunch time, so there will not be a lot of room for manoeuvre on the towel line by mid-day. I think the Safari will be the machine for the day and I will be doing investigations with a view to breaking out the CS4PI before we leave Talacre and emigrate further south, to an other static caravan site, in November.

In the event that you can't make it; I will run to very flexible plans and may hit an alternative section of the coast.