Whats your favourite type of ground to detect on ?

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Guys I think newer detectorists can learn from this thread. For a long time my favourite type of ground was stubble, why ? Well its because I convinced myself that hammered coins were too deep for my dfx in pasture. I ended up with 40+ hammered coins most of which were rubbish due to constant ploughing.

As soon as I found my first pasture hammered which was in lovely condition to all my others, my mind was made up on pasture. But then pasture does not get replenished with ploughing so I'm leaning back to stubble again.

What I know I dont like is ploughed, I just find it awkward to navigate and I find the Etrac rubbish on ploughed.

I've tried Beach detecting and my hat goes off to Badgers for his persistence I just cant get into it.

So what is your favourite type of ground and have you written off a specific type due to bad experience ? What do you find affects the ground for your machine.

[Neil]

One full of finds and not shotgun caps!

All joking aside - I'm a pasture man. Less damage to the item and can on occasion be considered to be found in context.

Not a fan of ploughed to be honest, although I do quite like soft stubble.

At the end of the day if its available I wont turn it down!

cheers
Neil

[Spooyt Vane]

Old pasture ..with more chance of recovering a complete arfefact and no fertilizer 

[Kev]

pasture  ( with gold coins in. )

[Mike]

old well nibbled pasture is my favourite , dont mind old woodland but shotty caps can drive a sane man crazy after a while  but i had my only saxon penny from a shotty filled wood so worth all the junk in the end

[geordiefred]

Well never found very much on ploughed and beaches only seem to turn up modern coins and junk rings for me, ( mind you wish I had a quid for everyone that's asked if Iv found any buried treasure yet?   ) stubble just does my head in so it has to be pasture  

[win]

Maize stubble. Dead easy to navigate, figure where you've been and want to go next.

[bymatt666 (byron)]

pasture for me..... .....but i do like the occasional ploughed, if only to have some easier digging...... .......byron

[beachboy (viv)]

for me anywhere if there is a chance of a good find  but i do like pasture its easier to walk on  .viv

[jonty]

Muddy estuaries with with areas of shingle.

[Debbie]

stubble .... stubble ............ stubble ............... stubble ............. stubble ............stubble .... stubble ............ stubble ............... stubble ............. stubble ............stubble .... stubble ............ stubble ............... stubble ............. stubble ............stubble .... stubble ............ stubble ............... stubble ............. stubble ............
did I mention that my favourite land to detect on is STUBBLE        

[Val Beechey]

Hayledge fields are my favourite. Cut twice or even three times a year and turned over every four and re-seeded.
Mostly sheep grazing in between in the winter.

Val

[celticspikey]

Guys I think newer detectorists can learn from this thread. For a long time my favourite type of ground was stubble, why ? Well its because I convinced myself that hammered coins were too deep for my dfx in pasture. I ended up with 40+ hammered coins most of which were rubbish due to constant ploughing.

As soon as I found my first pasture hammered which was in lovely condition to all my others, my mind was made up on pasture. But then pasture does not get replenished with ploughing so I'm leaning back to stubble again.

What I know I dont like is ploughed, I just find it awkward to navigate and I find the Etrac rubbish on ploughed.

I've tried Beach detecting and my hat goes off to Badgers for his persistence I just cant get into it.

So what is your favourite type of ground and have you written off a specific type due to bad experience ? What do you find affects the ground for your machine.

I have been detecting since the 1980s  , and have almost always searched ploughed land! despite having access to what would be deemed productive pasture. So this year I am making a conscious effort to rectify as clearly the less a coin or artifact is moved around by farm machinery the better condition it is likely to be in when found, also depending what county / area you are in many farms no longer plough due to costs, and farming practices and thus as is with some of my farms, find rates can diminish.

[avalon]

I would say ploughed and rolled produces the most objects for me,but for sheer quality and condition then it has to be woodland on a hillside, untouched by the plough or chemicals, a bit like this coin  

[JohnF]

I've had some of my best finds on pasture, thats a corker of a coin, Avalon.