Keen to get out and try my new detecting acquisition on pasture, after a rather uneventful session on Talacre sands the other week, I had decided to put a morning in on one of my small permissions on Thursday but was put off by the weather and took the Mrs shopping in stead.
With Friday promising a drier wind free day, I decided to drag my self out of a nice warm bed and brave the dawn yesterday. I chose to introduce the Q40 to a paddock where I have recovered a considerable number of coins from. The first twenty pounds worth of spendable decimal coins and a small 1877 scandinavian coin I gave to the lady land owner and the next £20 are to be my battery money.
Well, all togged up and entering the paddock at the crack of dawn, I was pleased to have the backlight on the Q40 control unit. I commenced detecting and worked an area a little larger than a cricket wicket, were I had eked out most of the earlier coins.
Started off rather quietly and I was beginning to wonder if the Safari had hoovered up all the existing coins from the area during previous visits. I then began to think that the Q40 wasn't doing it's job properly and tried several of the prefixed programs before settling for coin mode and then she came alive and started to sniff out targets one after the other.
She appeared to love bottle tops, ring pulls, pull tabs, and crushed aluminium drinks cans but also began to find some coins that I had missed whilst swinging the Safari in exactly the same area. By lunch time I had just over twenty
coins in my finds bag, including seven old £1 coins, two two shilling pieces, and one 1/2 p decimal. Nothing older than Elizabeth II turned up but I did, at one point, think I had a hammy in my grasp, only to discover that it was a small lump of crushed silver paper.
It's just a great pity that the £1 coins were not the new ones!
Chris
