digging and digging.....

[bulbus]

dont know if i,ve done something wrong, but went out tonight for an hour and had a good signal, so dug it. dug down that deep and the signal was still there... dug down about 20inches  still signal but nothing.... gave up in the end
should i of kept on digging, tried caving sides in incase of something in the walls of hole, but nothing.

the only thing i can think of is that the soil was quite irony??? there looked to be like rust in the ground, but very fine..

[Jon1987]

I'm guessing that if you went down a few more inches you would have found a nice bug lump of iron. What machine you using?

[bulbus]

cs 3mx....   did it twice tonight...   same field as normal but not really done it before, but yes have found big lumps of iron before deep down

[Val Beechey]

I have the same problem, as do others, with BIG pieces of iron. They give a great signal.

I keep reminding myself  'if it's that big do I really want it'  The answer is NO.

Val

[Jon1987]

I used to get that a lot when I first started with my Garrett ace. I used to dig and dig. Lol. Now iv got to know the signal type and I don't bother to carry on digging.

Mind, knowing my luck, iv probably missed a nice big hoard!  

[Chef Geoff]

But on a lot of hoards, the finders say it was a "strange sort of signal", now unless you dig it up you are always going to wonder

[bulbus]

lol... it was a good signal that i,d normally dig......
  got a lot to learn me thinks...

[bulbus]

do you think taking the mini digger next time is ott?

[Chef Geoff]

And what do you think that £2m bronze Roman cavalry helmet sounded like  

[Jon1987]

Haha that might do it  

I do wander though what I might have missed Geoff. Scary thought lol

[Jon1987]

That possible meteorite in the other thread just goes to show what we could miss by not digging iron. 

[bulbus]

dunna say that geoff....   quite close to the old roman road....

[Chef Geoff]

I've posted this link a few times over the years, but I like to put it up just to scare people
There are probably very few of us that would bother digging this if we went over it, just think
http://www.time-lines.co.uk/iron-age-la-t-ne-celtic-sword-fittings-01-21790-0.html

[Jon1987]

Oh Geoff, your a cruel man!!

[jtalbot0001]

Chef's answer is 100% correct, without question!!! I thought I was going to dig Iron (that strange signal as Geoff put it), a little while ago as well. Basically I dug 3 layers down in my hole, so my first layer if you like, I was still getting a signal, but could see nothing, so I dug further, still saw nothing but I still was getting a signal, it was at this point I was beginning to think I was going to find iron, as I have done in the past, but decided to continue as I always like to see the object anyhow. So going into my third layer I still couldn't see anything, but my probe told me I was right on top of it, so scraped away and found a small section of bronze. Basically turned out to be a Bronze Age Axe!! So keep digging!!!