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Title: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: daf.vinci on July 05, 2009, 03:52:36 PM Hi guys.
Im new on here and just started out metal detecting. I was just wondering if many people go down the beaches in swansea? Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Beefy (GARETH) on July 05, 2009, 03:58:12 PM Hi and welcome to the best forum i now we are great lot and some of us are mad not saying no names..... H op you like it just as much as the rest of us.......... :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on July 05, 2009, 04:16:04 PM Welcome to the forum Daf ;D
Loads of nice stuff have come off swansea Beaches.including hammerd coins . Theres a few Medieval Villages on that coast line that have been reclaimed by the sea. the Winter months are the best or just after a storm. Our Club RARE had a rally there few months ago i think one of our member found a really nice ring cant say where exactly coz i wasnt there. Best people to ask would be the Swansea club members All the best with your new Hobby/Pastime Phil Jones RARE Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Stig(The) on July 05, 2009, 04:19:41 PM Welcome Daf,Beach hunting has produced some nice finds,not sure bout Swansea tho as that`s abit far for me but plenty on here will Know bud !
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: daf.vinci on July 05, 2009, 04:41:37 PM Thanks for the comments guys.It sure does look like a great forum.
Providing the weather is good i am going down the beach for a dig 2moz. Even if i only find ring pulls,it will be a good start. Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on July 05, 2009, 05:12:56 PM Hi Daf
I had my 1st detector 10+ years ago now for xmas after a lot of hinting to the 1st Mrs jones New years day i was on Porthcawl beach in beautiful winter sunshine picking up alu cans and ring pulls then my 1st coin .... i was hooked lol all the best Phil Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: daf.vinci on July 05, 2009, 05:29:07 PM I cant wait to go and and have a try.Really looking forward now.
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on July 05, 2009, 05:45:36 PM HI Daf and welcome to the forum, i haven't been to swansea beach for a couple of years now, but lots do from down that way,
i have found a lizzie 1st hammered on there in the past, Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: daf.vinci on July 05, 2009, 06:02:01 PM Thanks for the reply alan.
Just a quick question though? Whats a "lizzie 1st half hammered"? Is it a Elizabeth 1 coin? Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on July 05, 2009, 06:06:08 PM Yip its a Hammered coin. Silver normally. Very highly sought after coins, Very rare to come off beaches though.
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: daf.vinci on July 05, 2009, 06:19:14 PM Cheers.Roll on morning time.
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on July 05, 2009, 06:22:13 PM No problem , let us know how you do. Dont forget its best at very low tide, so check your tide times , and careful of the mud!
Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: dragonsbreath(Paul) on July 05, 2009, 08:48:52 PM Just past the prison there are some parking areas on the left hand side
you can get some decent finds from the sandy area in front of you i had a william IIII sixpence from there. There are also several areas along that stretch that are basically nothing more than mud flats...its a right mucky ol place and beware of the mud but some tidy finds i have seen georgian silver and heard of hammies and bronze age. There is a decent sandy beach behind the observitory on the sea front i have never detected there so perhaps someone can tell us what its like to detect on that stretch of beach. And of course you have the stretch which ends at the mumbles a mixture of sandy areas/rocks and muddy areas. Hope that helps a bit regards and HH PaulB. 8) Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on July 06, 2009, 08:08:36 AM Yeah Dav, a thin silver coin from elizabeth the first, circa,mid. 1500s,
its a bit salt and sand eaten though, there used to be a medival villge out there before the sea re claimed it, Title: Re: Detecting on Swansea beaches. Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on July 06, 2009, 12:55:22 PM hi daf.vinci......welcome to the forum..... ;)...i was on swansea beach with the RARE club back in the winter.....i was the lucky one who found a gold ring... ;D....it was about 150 yards out in the grey,sticky mud !...good luck for when you go on there....byron
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