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                                               My Detecting Years
Let me start the ball rolling with this suggestion about how to properly detect land where ever it may be.
Now I don't wish to be egotistcal about this but it makes sense when you think about it.
How many of you go out and detect like lemmings jumping off a cliff and say after 8 hours that all you found was lead dross, many of you I would say.

Well here is how I used to do it but it may not satisfy some of you but I will say that your finds will increse by doing it my way.

One day during the winter some years back it started to snow and I was about to see something that struck me as pretty awful.

I saw feet markings all over the place and I was convinced that all those that were there were drunk or nearly so, the feet marks were all over the place and I thought instead of covering miles and miles I would mark out 30 square meters and detect that square from north to south, then east to west and then diagonally within the area.

What a difference it made and i was almost close to where my car was most of the time.

It was a bit bothersome marking out all the squares but it had results in the end. As soon as the Mass Upload is working I will put many of my finds that I have found over the years.

I used to go on for 8 hours at a stretch almost without stopping but I was 30 years younger then.
HH  to you all.

                                      " after 8 hours that all you found was lead dross, many of you I would say"

Hi Charles
Have you been following me? lol that sounds like my typical Detecing days.
I have learnt Slower is better I used to see it as a challenge to get to the farthest field 1st lol

Before i Joined a Detecing club i must have thrown a load of good stuff into the hedges or back onto the beach thinking they was rubbish I know ive thrown a crotal bell and loads of nice buckles and badges away
Theres a lesson there .......Join a club
Regards Phil Jones

I always start off "Slow n Low" but I find that as the day goes on I tend to get faster & faster without even realising!
I have to keep reminding myself to slow down.  ;)

You are a man after my own heart Phil. I also was unlearned at first, I once threw away a mediæval stirrup because I did not realise what it was, Went back 2 years later with no luck.
I started around 1973 abd rather late in life I am now 82 years old and still feel the pangs that I cannot now go out and stay the distance.
HH mate

I Have to take my hat off to you Charles still detecting at 82

hope im still able to swing a when im older (43)
I think what keeps us all going in the 1st of something
the 1st Coin 1st silver 1st Gold 1st roman 1st celtic ect ect
Id like to find my 1st celtic my friend wantst to find his 1st crotal ball

who Knows what the future will bring init !

I am afraind my time is now up for detecting, Phil. I had a colon cancer operation which left me weak in the stomach so I cannot go out now. I do, however, interest myself in other ways, art painting in oils, piano (mainly jazz) photography and other things. This is a nice site and hope to do more posting of finds I have made over the years

Its Great you got a lot of interests Im sorry to here about your health.
My Father died at 70 and he never got to do the things he had planned Visit Romen Learn the piano ect ect
I was only thinking the other day at the Longbridge Rallie...My dad would have loved to be doing this, He Fired the passion for the past in me and i thank him for that.

Ive been luck enough to be able to have a lot of  free time to do the things that work and kids stoped me doing.
Im my colleage Days i was a member of a caving club, Ive Recently joined a local club and im going on a course in January you got too keep going i think

Many could take a leaf from your book Charles !

Regards Phil Jones

If you do what your dad would have liked to have done then I think you have acheived something in your young life, Phil.8)

 ;D

Good One Charles boy,
 yeah iv'e been out every other day lately searching in a simular pattern,  a section at a time. well for about 5 hrs a day till the lights fades and after all has been done at home.

 yeah those years soon pass by without us realising it hey. make the most of every day while you can,
 Alan

Well done Charles.
What was your first machine & what sort of finds did you make with it?
Keep the pictures coming mate  :)

My first machine Kris was a cheap CScope 7" head. I found my first coin with it, a Geroge III half penny.
To say I was over the moon was no exageration, I did not really think it would work like that.
I paid £37 for it, new. That was in 1974.