Very Short Hunt - Amazing Story!!!

[CRUSADER]

Spent about an hour trying a very small paddock where the cows had recently grazed.

Didn't find anything of much interested & it was very trashy being so close to farm buildings.
x2 50cal casings
1907 Penny
Door Knob
Piece of Silver Jewelry
Fruit Machine Token - Interesting as it has a predecimal 6d on one side & the new pence conversion on the other, so must be at the cross over of about 1970-71.

Great Story!
The farmer wanted to ID a coin he found in the early 1980's. He found it when he leaned up against his tractor wheel & noticed a coin stuck in the tread. Turns out it was an 1580 Elizabeth I Sixpence In VF condition with no clipping to the edges. Wow what luck!

 

[shaun7]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Wow! Is it really that dangerous metal detecting in England? Are there alot of unexploded bombs still turning up in the countryside?

I've had one, but was told it was WW1.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Wow! Is it really that dangerous metal detecting in England? Are there alot of unexploded bombs still turning up in the countryside?

I've had one, but was told it was WW1.

I would think that the age would make it even more likely to explode?

 

[shaun7]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Wow! Is it really that dangerous metal detecting in England? Are there alot of unexploded bombs still turning up in the countryside?

I've had one, but was told it was WW1.

I would think that the age would make it even more likely to explode?

I don't know, but they took it away rather than blow it up in the field, so it couldn't have been too dangerous

 

[Skelly607]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Thats pretty kewl!! Better than pulling pull tabs.

 

[CRUSADER]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Wow! Is it really that dangerous metal detecting in England? Are there alot of unexploded bombs still turning up in the countryside?

Not really, in Belgium they plough them up all the time (big bombs!). Farmers carry them all to the end of the road & stack them up in piles. Every so often a truck comes around & picks them all up. I have seen hundreds like this. Its one reason they don't allow detecting over there. But can't be that dangerous if the farmers handle them all the time. We are just over careful in the country, H&S gone mad.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

How much stuff do you find left over from WW2?

Not a massive amount, but quite a few 50cals dropped by the aircraft before landing (still live & unfired, although often broken by ploughing), quite a lots of 303 rifle bullets/& shells. Maybe 30 or so capbadges, 100+ buttons. Lots of bits of aircraft including the practice ones they used to pull behind aircraft & shoot up, plus any crash site pieces (don't like going to near these & rarely keep any of it). No bombs or weapons yet. Thats about it really.

Wow! Is it really that dangerous metal detecting in England? Are there alot of unexploded bombs still turning up in the countryside?

Not really, in Belgium they plough them up all the time (big bombs!). Farmers carry them all to the end of the road & stack them up in piles. Every so often a truck comes around & picks them all up. I have seen hundreds like this. Its one reason they don't allow detecting over there. But can't be that dangerous if the farmers handle them all the time. We are just over careful in the country, H&S gone mad.

I'm really glad we don't have to worry about that kind of thing turning up here. The worst things that we turn up are barrels of toxic waste that have been dumped in rural areas or by rivers and streams in old industrial areas.