Title: Take a look Post by: Chef Geoff on May 27, 2009, 09:18:26 PM The old mantra for good detecting is, "Dig everything" and in a perfect world we all would, but we soon realise just how impracticable that is due to the amount of Iron scrap there is in the soil.
Having done a lot of research on the Boudicca project, I have learned just what we could and probably are leaving in the soil, But just to heighten all our paranoia's, have a look at this...... http://time-lines.co.uk/iron-age-la-t-ne-celtic-sword-01-21803-0.html (http://time-lines.co.uk/iron-age-la-t-ne-celtic-sword-01-21803-0.html) Chef Title: Re: Take a look Post by: viking on May 27, 2009, 09:46:34 PM just goes to show what signals u dont dig up. u never now :D
Title: Re: Take a look Post by: the sutt on May 27, 2009, 09:58:57 PM i use the fisher 1236x2, and if there's a big chunk of iron down there the fisher will pick it up, so i have no worries on that score
Title: Re: Take a look Post by: Chef Geoff on May 27, 2009, 10:04:07 PM Oh I think all our machines would pick it up, it's us operators that leave it undug because it's iron is the point.
Title: Re: Take a look Post by: ROMAN STEVE on May 28, 2009, 05:24:29 PM makes you think what we are missing
same if we go on cival war battlefield we dig the muskit balls but ignore the iron signal which could be a canon ball suppose we cant have it all ways ::) Title: Re: Take a look Post by: DIGGA on May 28, 2009, 10:01:42 PM im digging everything from now on ;D ;D ;D ;D
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