during my many years of detecting I have made a few finds that are definatley non run of the mill one nice sunny afternoon I decided to test out my new detector a whites beachcomber 6D on the mountainside behind my mothers house I ,d been detecting for about an with only a predecimal halfpenny and some rubbish to show for when I got quite a strong signal using my hand trowel I cut into the ground which was rock hard flipped the turf back the signal was still coming from the hole by now I was down six inchs suddenly I came across a flat stone by now my heart was beating like a drum with all kinds of strange thoughts going through my mind had I found a hoard
was it roman or medieval I removed the stone to find a round rusted container I tried to open this by hand no luck so I levered it open with my trowel only to discover that my potential hoard was a dead racing pigeon buried at eight inchs plus
in a babys powdered milk tin I consider to have gotten off lightly though after relating my story to a lady at the local library who informed me her friends husband who was also a detectorist whilst out detecting one day had a great signal dug down a fair depth to recover a metal container only to discover it contained someones ashes
but you know what they all say if in doubt DIG
