Title: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 05:47:44 PM Took me 5 years to find my first hammered coin..
Now less than a month later up pops hammy number two... Edward 1st penny. Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Dungbeetle on April 24, 2015, 05:50:05 PM A bit like buses mister, you're on a roll well done 👍👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 05:52:55 PM Cheers everyone said the first one was the hardest to find... ;)
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Mike on April 24, 2015, 06:17:16 PM now cut it out trouty your finding far 2 many hammies lately ;)
well found mate , keep it going :) :) Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 06:18:27 PM Lol cheers Mike...👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: hotmill on April 24, 2015, 06:31:57 PM Well done!
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 06:46:49 PM Cheers..👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Val Beechey on April 24, 2015, 06:56:14 PM Just remember there are only so many in Pembrokeshire and I haven't found one yet. Next one's mine ::)
Well done Mark, you'll have to give me some tips. ;) Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: searcher steve on April 24, 2015, 06:59:13 PM Nice find mark, must be on some good land ;)
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 07:00:07 PM In it to win it Val...👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 07:00:37 PM Land looks good Steve...👍🙀
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: marknewbury1 on April 24, 2015, 07:54:47 PM Land looks good Steve...👍🙀 well done more to come ;D ;DTitle: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 24, 2015, 08:01:21 PM Cheers mark
Hopefully more to come...👍 Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Dryland on April 24, 2015, 10:16:12 PM Well found Trouty, you're on a roll ;)
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Jonnietaz on April 24, 2015, 10:31:03 PM Looking good.
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 25, 2015, 04:19:30 AM Cheers guys....😝👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: probono on April 25, 2015, 04:30:50 AM Great news - it goes that way sometimes - and I think it is a case of now you know what a hammy sounds like on your detector you are more likely to find one.
There was (is) a field that I detected for two years before I found anything, and I detected it for about 3 1/2 years before I found a hammered coin in it - and as you might have seen in the news, I then found a few more - that was four years into detecting in that field - and even after all of that, I still missed a denarius that Mike found (I'd managed 2 roman silvers in that field). About the last thing I found there was part of a bronze age axe head - mad - how could I have missed all that stuff? Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 25, 2015, 05:59:03 AM As you say once you know what they sound like...
God only knows how many low tones I haven't dug over the years... Wen looking for silver I was waiting for a sweet high tone... Little did I know lol...👍 Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: DEADLOCK on April 25, 2015, 08:42:10 AM well done mr trout cracking as said there like buses, hope you get a few more too at this rate you will overtaking MR CHEF, ;D ;D ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Val Beechey on April 25, 2015, 08:58:42 AM Strange you both should mention that Probono and Trouty. On the way home from the last rally, John and myself were discussing my lack of a certain item and he suggested I ask someone who'd got one if we could re-bury it, carefully protected, of course, so I could run over it and see what it sounded like or if it even registered on the settings I'm using.
I often wonder if I've walked over any and not recognised the tone. Do they sound the same as, lets say, a Bull head 6d. ?? Val Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: b.buoy on April 25, 2015, 09:44:38 AM Hi Val
I do actually carry a small battered hammy in my finds box. It goes in a polythene bag and I have many times buried it on site and at various depths so I could be assured that my settings on the day would still detect it. It is a different noise and always a lower reading. I confess that I haven't found many hammys with my Deus yet but feel assured that is mainly because I haven't swung the search coil in the right places. Also, and possibly like yourself, I have problems getting up and down to dig signals and only cover half the ground and dig speeds that most others do. My Deus has the 9 inch head and I might do better with the 11 inch but cant really justify the extra £300 odd to buy the 11 inch new. I would happily buy a 2nd hand 11 inch if they were about but they are like hens teeth. Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: troutmasterfunk on April 25, 2015, 09:54:23 AM Almost a foil tone val...👍
Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Val Beechey on April 25, 2015, 01:22:58 PM If I've understood the instructions correctly I don't think I've missed much. I have set discrim. at 29 and iron volume at 0. Reactivity at 3. I aim to dig anything above that as long as I can get a 2 way signal. (Farmers take exception to swimming pools in their fields)
Foil comes in above that, at abt. 34 but varies, so unless it's very deep I can't see how I could miss anything good. I think I probably answered my own question when I told Dylan, 'Ignore iffy signals with the Deus at your own peril' If I'm proved wrong it means I've got a lot of fields to re-visit. Val Title: Re: Hammy number two... Post by: Chef Geoff on April 25, 2015, 04:35:06 PM hope you get a few more too at this rate you will overtaking MR CHEF, ;D ;D ;D ;D ::) That won't be hard....mind you if I actually got of my arse and did some detecting it would help ;D |