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Had the day off today but I was under strict orders to concentrate on DiY :'( But I did manage to escape for two and a half hours this afternoon and so headed to an as yet undetected field that Taff, Ray and I have got permission for. The ground is still a little to dry for my liking which was reinforced by me being able to run 32 sens in manual with no disc :o
and it was still quiet.
Well I had very few diggable signals in my time there and only 4 are worth showing.
The first was a strangely shaped pot leg with a lovely patina that took some digging and eventually revealed itself at 16"(that's two spade depths that's how I know). Then came an unfortunately bent square pewter lid from what I presume was a snuff box. Next up was a WWI General service button in quite good condition and lastly just as I had given up and as sods law often does a Cartwheel penny from just behind the car ::)

i'd love to find a cartwheel penny to add to mycollection...maybe tomorrow :)

I'm sure you will Jassy soon enough. I was running full sens in manual when I found this one and at only 5" it sounded as if I had found a dustbin lid :D

16" thats well impressive mate

It's a big old bit of metal though

where did it register on your screen????

same place as a pound coin, top right

well its not that bad for only 2 half hours mucker..nice pot leg at a nice depth to geoff.i bet when you seen the patina you thought it could be axe-heads right at that depth..well i would of..lol..welldone butty.
raymondo

You know me too well Ray lol That's exactly what I thought :'(

Well at least you found something worthy of note. Well done Geoff.

Actually I think my afternoons effort is worthy of a note. You had your Button Oak I have my field of washers. ::) and I didn't dig them all.

And not a coin in sight. :'(

Val

 ;D :D Oh god Val I feel for you gal, every machine will give a nice signal on those accursed things and it does look as if you have more than your fare share.

cheffys right val love..if they.re 6 to 8 inches they are going to give you a good signal on the dfx more so with the big spider coil val..i bet your shattered love my advice is get out of that field now..lol.
raymondoo

ive got high hopes for tomorrow,on a field near hammies found and bronze age axe heads :)

Nice going Geoff, at the depth you found that pot leg, I bet at first thought you were thinking it may be Bronze Age! If you're finding things that deep, keep going, you bound to find something decent at that depth! And you were running full sensitivity by the sounds of what you said, that's exactly how I came across my axe head!

glad to see i,m not the only one to find ointment tubes.....hay val....

well you stuck to it, its gona come real soon

Thanks for rubbing it in Jan. :'( :'( Wish I was a bit closer.

No Ray. Can't give up that easy. I'll try the GOOD part of the field tommorrow. ;D
And yes Geoff, every one gave a cracking signal. Too good not to dig. You know what they say,  It's the one you don't dig. Or something like that.
Must admit I had one bit of luck. I found one of those wire loop safety thingies that you attach to trailers which was quite new so I cleaned it up a bit and returned it to the Farmer. Smiles all round.
Oh, my aching back.

Val

Well done Geoff. Not bad for a couple of hours work.

Hi Jassy, I found my first cartwheel at the Glastonbury rally. They really are a nice coin to add to your collection. I was facinated by the history of them. Im sure you will find one soon.

well done!! my day will come....eventually!!!! ;D

Thats one hell of a POT leg Geoff. Looking at it again this morning I wondered if it was off a fire basket.
Whatever, it must have been very impressive. You'll have to see if you can find the rest. :o

Val

well done Geoff- laughed again - spooky - because guess what I found two days ago - a servicemans button, exactly the same as yours. LOL but I was in the wrong field !!  ahhhh  :o

Its how I found the little silver thingie because I was on the "wrong" field (next to the fields I am allowed on and didnt realise).   famer came flying across the fields, me thinking how quick can I get to the car if its a nutter, and he was not happy to say the least.  Apologising as much as I could and thinking of digging a hole big enough to fit into it, I rushed off his field, after giving him the button, which he said "I dont want that".  opps.

So left the only area I have to detect on and decided to go to the farm to play with the horses and just scooted around and found the silver thing.

Val - What also made me laugh was the penicillin tubes.  OMG they give the most amazing sound and bars on my detector, luckily they are plastic today so once you've picked them up they are not going to be replaced by this year's batch. 

The other bug bear is gun cartridge tops.  Again a superb signal and around us loads and loads of shooting goes on.

Take my hat off to you to dig so many of the washers though - I think I would have been crying each time I dug one of those up !!

Nice horseshoe, dug up a medeival one the other day - really pleased about that.

HA needs a prod in the right direction me thinks !

Take care

h

Dear God Val - time to change farms methinks  ::)

Well, so much for the brave idea of doing 'the good bit' of the field this afternoon. I took the dogs out this morning for a LITTLE walk that turned into a big one, with lots of fun on the beach, and a brisk walk back to the car 1 1/4 miles away.
Got back, sat and had a sandwich at 12.45 and the next thing I knew it was 3.35. Must have needed it. ::)
Ah well I WILL do it tommorrow.

Val

Did you doze off dearie?
Yes - there's always tomorrow Val  :)

Doze off ?? I think I went comatose. Must be my age  ::)

Val

 ;D ;D