Today's haul

[Resurgam]

                               Well; with the BBC weather man giving dry weather from dawn till 1400 hrs today, I decided to give the EuroAce one last outing for this year.

                                I commenced detecting just after dawn and after fifty independent WWII targets within two hours, I decided to widen my search to see if I could unearth some civilian finds. Two buttons, a George V 1918 penny, and what looked like a silver fork later, the weather started to close in and a slight drizzle turned to rain and I decided to call it a day at 1120 hrs. Should have gone detecting yesterday, whilst the sun was shining! 

                               What I thought was a silver fork was total unresponsive to the old aluminium foil trick and what initially looked like a hall mark must be some sort of company logo. 

[Jeff The Wizard]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your suspicion about the fork not being Silver was correct.
Unfortunately it's only plated 

[Resurgam]

                                     Thanks for the confirmation Geff; the thoughts of silver were nice whilst they lasted. At least I got plenty of target practice yesterday and that was the third or fourth piece of cutlery that I have found in the area where so much WWII brass turns up; perhaps an indication of better things to come there in the new year. 

[grego]

Well done Chris.

[Resurgam]

                                   Thanks m8; it's going to be interesting to run the new Safari over the area next season. I wonder if the Safari can be trained to ignore the brass .303 cartridges and pick out the better finds?