Similar to a story I was told back in January. I got talking to a fella down the lane one morning when walking the dogs. Turned out he is the new Game Keeper for one of the big Estates round here. Very promising, at the time.!!! He was going to let me onto a few 'good' fields when the shooting had finished but when I phoned him in April he told me they'd 'Had Trouble' with a couple of blokes detecting and it was now banned. Ah Well.!!!!
He told me that when he accepted the job he had a coice of 2 houses and chose the old farm house. He was taken to have a look by the retiring Game Keeper who said he'd let him into a secret. There was something buried under the floor in the parlour. He knew this because some years ago someone with a detector had a signal but his Wife, now dead, wouldn't let him dig.
Because the carpet was in threads and he was going they deceided to 'have a go' They pulled out the old carpet, lifted some old slabs and started digging. An exhausting couple of hours and a big hole later they gave up, having found nothing. But when back filling they found a piece of rusty old iron and assumed that was what gave the signal. I said possibly he should have checked it out with a more modern detector as mine knew the difference between iron and other metals (sometimes) But he declined the offer as there is now a new carpet. I wonder if they were digging in the right place, and is there still something there.
Val
