Hi all
So today was my first time out metal detecting since sometime near February for various reasons. A couple of days ago I treat myself to a new (used) detector which is a minelab safari. All I can say about the machine so far is that I am really impressed with the build quality and also the depth it achieves although it is still very early days.
Anyway, I went to the huge pasture permission that I have hammered a lot of times and set the machine up in a way I had read about last night. The settings were, all metal, sensitivity auto, -10 and +40 notched out, threshold just audible and noise cancelled. These settings seemed really effective.
There were not loads of finds made but I have found what is possibly my favourite ever find especially after giving it a light clean under warm water. Big thanks to the ferret for live id'ing it while I was still in the field.
A medieval heraldic mount with red and blue enamel!
And if anyone wants to watch me finding it here is the video
So today was my first time out metal detecting since sometime near February for various reasons. A couple of days ago I treat myself to a new (used) detector which is a minelab safari. All I can say about the machine so far is that I am really impressed with the build quality and also the depth it achieves although it is still very early days.
Anyway, I went to the huge pasture permission that I have hammered a lot of times and set the machine up in a way I had read about last night. The settings were, all metal, sensitivity auto, -10 and +40 notched out, threshold just audible and noise cancelled. These settings seemed really effective.
There were not loads of finds made but I have found what is possibly my favourite ever find especially after giving it a light clean under warm water. Big thanks to the ferret for live id'ing it while I was still in the field.
A medieval heraldic mount with red and blue enamel!
And if anyone wants to watch me finding it here is the video
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