first day with my new xp

[shaun7]

Crusader invited me up to try out my new detector and help him finish a field today

The first part of the day didn't go to well, i managed to jump in a ditch that looked dry and find out it was only the top inch or so that was dry! i had some trouble getting my shoe back!

Things improved after cru put his pinny on and cooked lunch on the BBQ

I got two nicely decorated tombac buttons (among others)
My oldest thimble yet (beehive i think) and in great condition!
Part of a decorated early medieval "D" buckle and a nice 2nd century roman coin!

 

[shaun7]

By the way.... I'm trying to cosy up to a farmer who has fields virtually right on the A5 on Staffs/Shrops border... Plenty of Roman activity round that way.

If he gives me the nod, then you and Lord Shaun would be more than welcome to spend time on it with me. But he has to wear that shoe...

you bring it and i'll wear it

does that sound a bit wierd

'Nuff said....

 

[Steve_UK]

Anyhow... after my disappointment on the ploughed field, I went a walk.

Only I could find a stinking pile of rotten parsnips. The stench was something out of this world...

 

[CRUSADER]

Anyhow... after my disappointment on the ploughed field, I went a walk.

Only I could find a stinking pile of rotten parsnips. The stench was something out of this world...

score, send us some for our horses

 

[Steve_UK]

Anyhow... after my disappointment on the ploughed field, I went a walk.

Only I could find a stinking pile of rotten parsnips. The stench was something out of this world...

score, send us some for our horses

I wouldn't want to stand behind one of your horses after he ate any of that lot...

 

[shaun7]

Nice finds, I always like to view posta from Europe!!

Here is something that might help you in the future!!

HH, Ringfinder

to be honest i think wellies would have made it worse! i'd never have been able to retrieve it!

i was really stuck with one shoe on and one stuck in the mud, but where was cru?...............ignoring my cries for help

 

[shaun7]

Anyhow... after my disappointment on the ploughed field, I went a walk.

Only I could find a stinking pile of rotten parsnips. The stench was something out of this world...

score, send us some for our horses

I wouldn't want to stand behind one of your horses after he ate any of that lot...

here come he jokes about standing behind me

 

[allen]

how hard was Crusader laughing when you went in the mud?
those are some really nice looking finds !!

 

[CRUSADER]

how hard was Crusader laughing when you went in the mud?
those are some really nice looking finds !!

it would have been very loud if I saw him. I did spot him washing his shoe & sock in a nearby pond

 

[shaun7]

how hard was Crusader laughing when you went in the mud?
those are some really nice looking finds !!

it would have been very loud if I saw him. I did spot him washing his shoe & sock in a nearby pond

very funny! that was my favorite sock

 

[shaun7]

how hard was Crusader laughing when you went in the mud?
those are some really nice looking finds !!

thanks allen bye the way

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nic finds shaun...your picture are now getting better, try just photographing the better finds on there own

 

[shaun7]

Nic finds shaun...your picture are now getting better, try just photographing the better finds on there own

cheers mate

 

[woody50]

Hi Shaun, missed your post (it was earlier than Cru's ! Wow you are fast!). Very nice beehive, I just love those. Really any of the cast and hand made thimbles are neat.

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is.... I like your photos, you got the Macro down pat now, Great! Actually they look like a professional took them Shaun. And you made out good with the XP for the first time, it gets better. Don't forget to listen carefully for the small swoosh signals and dig... (they are hard to hear), but since the XP forces you to use headphones you will find some nice things that were missed by others...

Nice post too, you are getting into the mood!

 

[BuckleBoy]

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is....

I agree. Post it all. That's the best way to get pieces ID'ed that you may have overlooked. It's hard enough here in the states with so many whatzits and a few hundred years of material culture to identify. I don't know how you guys do it--identifying thousands of years of material culture...


But either way, it's always worth a second look before it gets chucked in the hedge row. :P


Great finds! Now that you have a great machine to go along with your great hunting partner, you will go far.



Best Wishes,



Buckles

 

[shaun7]

Hi Shaun, missed your post (it was earlier than Cru's ! Wow you are fast!). Very nice beehive, I just love those. Really any of the cast and hand made thimbles are neat.

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is.... I like your photos, you got the Macro down pat now, Great! Actually they look like a professional took them Shaun. And you made out good with the XP for the first time, it gets better. Don't forget to listen carefully for the small swoosh signals and dig... (they are hard to hear), but since the XP forces you to use headphones you will find some nice things that were missed by others...

Nice post too, you are getting into the mood!

thanks woody

i have the xp set up different to you and cru, i'm using "silver searchers" settings at the moment to avoid so much iron!

sounds completely different to cru's machine! i didn't hear any swooshing signals (i don't think ) but did get iron buzzes and sometimes with a good signal mixed in!
turned out to be iron with some lead in the hole too i don't thnk the lobo would have picked up on that

 

[shaun7]

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is....

I agree. Post it all. That's the best way to get pieces ID'ed that you may have overlooked. It's hard enough here in the states with so many whatzits and a few hundred years of material culture to identify. I don't know how you guys do it--identifying thousands of years of material culture...


But either way, it's always worth a second look before it gets chucked in the hedge row. :P


Great finds! Now that you have a great machine to go along with your great hunting partner, you will go far.



Best Wishes,



Buckles

thanks Buckeboy, it's easy when your detecting with a walking finds reference book

he's brilliant to detect with, but never lets you down gently!

if it's crap, and it doesn't matter how excited i look, he'll just tell me it's crap and throw it in the hedge

 

[BuckleBoy]

thanks Buckeboy, it's easy when your detecting with a walking finds reference book

he's brilliant to detect with, but never lets you down gently!

if it's crap, and it doesn't matter how excited i look, he'll just tell me it's crap and throw it in the hedge

I'm a similar type of personality, too. When I first met and started mentoring Rodeo Recon I figured he'd either wind up being an Excellent detectorist or I'd wind up murdered and left in a cornfield.


But great opportunities have a habit of outweighing temporary discomforts and annoyances, be they lost shoes or hedge-deposited finds.



Best Wishes,



Buckles

 

[woody50]

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is....

I agree. Post it all. That's the best way to get pieces ID'ed that you may have overlooked. It's hard enough here in the states with so many whatzits and a few hundred years of material culture to identify. I don't know how you guys do it--identifying thousands of years of material culture...
But either way, it's always worth a second look before it gets chucked in the hedge row. :P
Great finds! Now that you have a great machine to go along with your great hunting partner, you will go far.
Best Wishes,
Buckles

Hi Buckles, you are sure right about chucking something into the hedge rows...! Yea, the states has about 300+ years of making things, and of course there was a bunch of stuff brought over from Europe in the beginning. Even a lot of those finds are hard to determine, as seen in the forum "What is it". I've been stumped many times with wondering what something is in that forum..... Here in Holland and England (two lands that I know good) its of course even harder. So many metal things were made in those thousands of years! I have found many things since starting to search in Europe (85) and got quite a few that NO ONE knows what it is. Museums, professionals, other detectorists, nothing in books... well many times after searching and asking for a long time I just give up. Sometimes its hard to know what a keeper is, and when its not.

The best bet of course is, and I guess also in the States, just keep everything. OK, tin cans, pull tabs and tinfoil and modern stuff like that, trash it (in a trash can of course). But even iron sometimes has its surprises, I have found quite a bit of nice iron things, that were so rusted you could not see what was inside them.

A couple of years ago I went with my club to a hunt down in the south of Holland, in the old part of the land. We searched for tokens (from the club that was sponsoring the hunt) and the normal finds (very few). When we got back from the last hunt we saw a couple of blokes from our area and went over to say HI and see what they found. Well the one guy dumped his stuff out and there was not too much to see, a few copper coins and stuff. But one thing caught our eyes and when we picked it up we saw it was a bronze axe (BC)! A nice one too, not damaged at all. Well when we told him what it was he was of course very surprised and when he settled down from all the jumping around we noticed his friend was very interested in the axe. He then said to us, are you sure? Yea... S h i t, I found one of those too, and chucked it into the underbrush in the woods...... WOW. So we all got in our cars and drove to the field. Well we looked in the woods for quite some time and could not find it. He could not really remember exactly where it was, he thought it was another piece of trash of course....

So keep everything is my motto...

 

[shaun7]

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is....

I agree. Post it all. That's the best way to get pieces ID'ed that you may have overlooked. It's hard enough here in the states with so many whatzits and a few hundred years of material culture to identify. I don't know how you guys do it--identifying thousands of years of material culture...
But either way, it's always worth a second look before it gets chucked in the hedge row. :P
Great finds! Now that you have a great machine to go along with your great hunting partner, you will go far.
Best Wishes,
Buckles

Hi Buckles, you are sure right about chucking something into the hedge rows...! Yea, the states has about 300+ years of making things, and of course there was a bunch of stuff brought over from Europe in the beginning. Even a lot of those finds are hard to determine, as seen in the forum "What is it". I've been stumped many times with wondering what something is in that forum..... Here in Holland and England (two lands that I know good) its of course even harder. So many metal things were made in those thousands of years! I have found many things since starting to search in Europe (85) and got quite a few that NO ONE knows what it is. Museums, professionals, other detectorists, nothing in books... well many times after searching and asking for a long time I just give up. Sometimes its hard to know what a keeper is, and when its not.

The best bet of course is, and I guess also in the States, just keep everything. OK, tin cans, pull tabs and tinfoil and modern stuff like that, trash it (in a trash can of course). But even iron sometimes has its surprises, I have found quite a bit of nice iron things, that were so rusted you could not see what was inside them.

A couple of years ago I went with my club to a hunt down in the south of Holland, in the old part of the land. We searched for tokens (from the club that was sponsoring the hunt) and the normal finds (very few). When we got back from the last hunt we saw a couple of blokes from our area and went over to say HI and see what they found. Well the one guy dumped his stuff out and there was not too much to see, a few copper coins and stuff. But one thing caught our eyes and when we picked it up we saw it was a bronze axe (BC)! A nice one too, not damaged at all. Well when we told him what it was he was of course very surprised and when he settled down from all the jumping around we noticed his friend was very interested in the axe. He then said to us, are you sure? Yea... S h i t, I found one of those too, and chucked it into the underbrush in the woods...... WOW. So we all got in our cars and drove to the field. Well we looked in the woods for quite some time and could not find it. He could not really remember exactly where it was, he thought it was another piece of trash of course....

So keep everything is my motto...

can i just say that all this stuff is collectected from the edge of the field at the end of the day and disposed of properly!

crusader makes several trips to the edge, emptying his rubbish and mine for collection later! while i carry on detecting

sometimes the edge is a long way away, but someone has to do it

 

[Silver Searcher]

Hi Shaun, missed your post (it was earlier than Cru's ! Wow you are fast!). Very nice beehive, I just love those. Really any of the cast and hand made thimbles are neat.

I don't agree with Silver Searcher try just photographing the better finds on there own , just keep making photos of everything you find, just like Cru. Things that you can't see what it is will be told to you, and then the next time you know what it is.... I like your photos, you got the Macro down pat now, Great! Actually they look like a professional took them Shaun. And you made out good with the XP for the first time, it gets better. Don't forget to listen carefully for the small swoosh signals and dig... (they are hard to hear), but since the XP forces you to use headphones you will find some nice things that were missed by others...

Nice post too, you are getting into the mood!

I'm not bothered what you think Woody you have taken my post the wrong way it's better to take pictures ofthe more interesting finds on there own you can't focus properly (especially in macro) on more than one piece