Whats your favourite type of ground to detect on ?

[Chef Geoff]

The answers seem to have divided themselves into two camps, land that is the best to detect on and land that "would ideally" be the best to detect on.
Ideally my choice would be the same as Bobs and many others, sheep grazed pasture, billiard table flat that has never been ploughed. The only problem with my ideal site is that I would never find anything of course as everything would be too deep lol.
The simple truth is that if you find a hammered coin then the land has been ploughed or disturbed, anything on the surface will be covered at a rate of 2" every 10 years, so if your piece of land hasn't seen a plough in the last 100 years then forget it.
Luckily we had a little event called WWII which saw over 90 of pasture given over to the plough and so land that you think of as ancient pasture is probably no older than 60 years. Obviously there are always exceptions to the rule, upland farms and land on slopes will suffer soil erosion and weathering.
The land that I prefer to to detect on because of results is stubble (but any arable), here my finds of hammered and Roman coins are 10 times higher than they are on pasture.

[dances with badgers]

beach beach definatly beach,kaymart kaymart lol (rainman)

[WeCan-Octavian]

I personally prefer to detect on any land i can get permission on!!!!!! you gotta walk over it to find it!!


Pasture is nice going though