Still Exploring more new land............

[CRUSADER]

Spent 1 hour on the 3rd of the small fields. Didn't do to well, so decided to go back to the first field we tried, where we got the cut hammered.

Best find on this field is a 17th century token which I think I need:
EDWARD IENNINGS, Stick of Candles, Cambridge.

Also please with the late Tudor Clothes Fastener & countermarked Georgian copper.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Still Exploring new land............

We continued gridding this field from where we left off last time. 2 hours later we completed the nearest end to the village.

Got a nice Jetton of a type I've yet to find
Dad got a Georgian Silver penknife blade. Never seen a blade like this in silver Must have been for fruit cutting??

Overall, a slightly better day than yesterday but not much in the way of good finds. We now know to stick with this field (out of the 3), as it is more promising.

 

[seger98]

Cool cool finds!


Chris

 

[shaun7]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

 

[CRUSADER]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

 

[diggergrl]

nice finds! Maybe the silver knife was made for some sort of ritual purpose?

 

[CRUSADER]

nice finds! Maybe the silver knife was made for some sort of ritual purpose?

Not much ritual activity in the Georgian period (that I know of, other than Mason)

 

[shaun7]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

sounds like a good detector , and your learning it quicker than you thought!

 

[Silver Searcher]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

Be carefull ....some of the large bronze targets can sound a bit irony

 

[shaun7]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

Be carefull ....some of the large bronze targets can sound a bit irony

back to square one then!

 

[CRUSADER]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

Be carefull ....some of the large bronze targets can sound a bit irony

Thanks for the advice, I'm still very careful at the moment, hence the pocket full of nails. I think you mean those mid-tone ones that sound irony, although I have only found a few bronze slags pieces so far, so haven't got that sound down yet.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I'm also looking for new fields to detect, lots of time detecting with few finds. I have been spoiled for years with a few awesome sites but they are nearly hunted out and slow going these days. Good luck finding a hot field and HH, Mike

 

[robfinds]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

Be carefull ....some of the large bronze targets can sound a bit irony

Too true !

 

[allen]

nice bunch of cool relics crusader...

 

[johnreb1980]

Looks like you have had a good 2008, way to go. Good luck for the 09 season.

 

[phantomfinder]

Very cool finds , I like the knife blade....

 

[woody50]

looks like a good day to me!
how was the xp today, any progress with it? i don't mean your finds but the iron and crap!

I've learnt to ignore most of the iron but the odd nail on top still gets found (or larger deep piece). Forgot to say before I have found a couple of buttons on top of nails & you can hear both sounds (good & bad). I can't wait to get it on one of our better fields where I can hoover up the good stuff.

Be carefull ....some of the large bronze targets can sound a bit irony

Thanks for the advice, I'm still very careful at the moment, hence the pocket full of nails. I think you mean those mid-tone ones that sound irony, although I have only found a few bronze slags pieces so far, so haven't got that sound down yet.

There is no problem with a pocket full of nails, that is the way to learn. And if you keep the discrimination low you WILL ALWAYS dig them, no problem really. (some 4 sided nails I alway hunt, they are beautiful). After a while you can almost hear when its junk iron, but I still dig a lot of it, but do it quickly. The mid tones are harder, but I dig almost every one of those, unless I get use to a certain signal that I can agree with is junk. Just takes time, and you should in the begin dig say 80% of the signals in any case. I started out by digging all the signals, depending of course on where you are searching, and gradually leaving some of them, and testing every once in a while that my decision to not dig that object was correct. Just trust you XP more than yourself, it rarely makes big mistakes...
Take less time to dig and test the iron signals, and more time and be carefull with good signals....

 

[tymcmurray]

That blade IS interesting. Great hunt!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Looks like a treasure to me HH Ron

 

[garryson]

Nice finds!