Nuke em

Actually , No . I had to go and pick her up from the Hospital after work at around 10pm . There all shut by then .

On land i would mostly dig all . But not on the beach tops . Lower on the beach between tides i dig 90 % plus.

This morning i took my Nox to the beach for a look at the low tide , i didn't take the Terra too so was going to have to use the Nox on the difficult dry tops too if necessary . I got there at 5am and went straight for the normally best beach . It didn't look brilliant , the lower beach had built up a bit but was workable. There were others detecting the dry here and there so i went straight for the wet . I got lucky and found a few coins almost immediately and not long after a small toe ring , it looks Silver and had a high tone but isn't marked . It compares well with tones on other Silver rings of the same size that i have . Further along i found another ring , it also has no hallmark but has a high tone , i scuffed the metal and it stayed Silver looking . I will get them checked one day but will consider them Silvers . The tide was too short to do much sand so i will have to do that tomorrow when the tide is out further . Time for a Gold . After that i went onto the tops with my Beach 1 mode and only listened to high tones for the Pound coins . Lower denomination coins are impossible to tell with so many junk targets about , thats normally best for the Terra to look for. After a while i left that beach and worked East and it was hard work , i looked at an area i searched last week but found little . I was about to give up when a Man came up to me and asked if i could find a bunch of keys he lost , there were car keys , house , shop and other keys so i went for a look , he said he would pay for my time . I doubted i would find them . We got to the area he and his family were at and i searched that area but there was no sign of them . I asked if he was sure about the area and he then said maybe it was a bit further down . I searched for a while and then suddenly i got a target that seemed right and i scuffed the surface a bit and saw the keys . He was very happy as it was not long before he would have had to pay for parking and he has to display the ticket inside the car . He could have been given a ticket let alone the cost of all those keys to cut. He picked out 3 x £20 notes and said have this but i said no i couldn't and said only £20 . . I think i am getting quite used to finding peoples lost rings and things when out , might have to start a business ? , bet that will pay . Like Hell it will ! When i left i counted up and my total was £38.25p and the 2 rings . Tomorrow the weather will be a bit stormy after the heatwave we have had , so i will be there looking for the Gold if any and will be out from 5am till 2pm . I am going to use the Nox firth till the sand fills in the do the tops till i have searched them out . Thats 2 miles of beaches if i can . On Sunday there is a nice dig on with the Weekend Wanderers which i was thinking of going too but i am not likely to go , the weather is iffy and i dont like the heat on fields either . but the main reason is that i dont want to be far from home right now . On Thursday my Mother went to the Hospital for an Echo scan of her Heart so the results can go to Guy's Hospital in London . She will soon be there to have her operation for Lung Cancer . But when she was going into the entrance she tripped up and fell on the floor face first . Theres no broken bones but she does have a big bruise and black eyes . Both are black now . She is getting the most out of the NHS right now! I will go to another dig another time. Been a long time since i have searched land .

Dont worry . If you repent we will forgive you LOL

Looking at those numbers . As the old saying goes , where there's muck there's money.

It is still quite good but its getting harder to find , have to put in the hours for much less than in the past . Here's another search from the past on 5 October 2015 with my only so far 11.6g Platinum and the next on 7 July 2013 , the next on 13- July 2013 and the next 27 August 2014 with a Gold ring. There were others on 2012 but i dont have pictures.

After finding that the compound that i wanted to search yesterday was not cleared i went back this morning for an early start if it was today . But when i got there at 7am i found that it would be a few hours yet . So i wasted 2 hours till the bank was open so i could put some money in then After that i got a Bus and traveled a mile West . When i got to that part of the beach i found there were a few holes so i knew someone else had searched it . In any case i got to work and found that who ever it was had missed a few targets and by the time i finished and got to the main beaches i search i had a bit over £18 in coinage . I didn't find any gems . When i got to the compound they were not long in clearing the fencing . Another detectorist was in the area and we both went in to the area once opened up , that was about 12.30pm and stayed there till we had searched all the area that the Footy fans were sitting on . By about 4pm Michael the other detectorist had just over £25 and i had just over £40 and some Euro Cent coins and 2 US Cents. So my total for today was £59.33p , 1.10 Euro's and the US Cents . During the search my Terra kept cutting out , i changed the batteries but it did it again . I think there is an issue so i will contact my Dealer and see about getting it looked at when i can . Not keen on sending it away because it means using my ET on the tops and thats hard and heavy work in this heat . I will see if the Terra can soldier on till the end of the School Holidays at the beginning of September .

Went back today from 7am till 4.30pm . The cashless society is certainly taking hold but I didn't do to badly. Report to follow when I get home, stuck in traffic in the rush hour.

18 i think.

That sounds like an old market site . Unlikely to have Sovereigns , maybe the odd Crown though.

Finding one in land is very rare . Bit like fresh Dodo dung .

No idea what they were , will check them on the Nox when i can .

In 2010 i found a 1964 Sovereign in a mount on a Gold chain on the beach , i kept the coin . In 2013 i found a 1906 Half Sovereign in a Gold ring on the beach and also a 1912 Half Sovereign in a mount .

This is the score that i got in an enclosure in 2014 on 14 - 07 - 2014 , i think that was the World cup too but not sure. The 4 rows of Copper/ Nickel coins are the old Pound coins of the time .

This morning i took my Terra and Nox to the beach at 7am hoping that either i would find a ton of coinage or a ring with the Nox on the lower beach . As it turned out i didn't use the Nox as the Terra was enough . I was hoping to have a go in an enclosure with a large screen that was put in place for the World Cup but that was not available today , not sure when it will be but will check again . Over around 3 hours i found a 1 Euro coin and 2 other foreign coins , a junk ring and £16,38p and a fishing weight and a toy car . Tomorrow i will take only the Terra and have a go in the enclosure if i can , that might turn out to be my best score this year so far but it will also give me a chance to see if the cashless society is as bad as i think it is . A few years ago i found £157.99p and a Gold ring in 4 hours . Wont do that but it should be fun trying .

There is none on my beaches , very low tides are wet sand for a hour or two at max .

Going to be another long search tomorrow , there are places i haven't done for a while . Will only use my Terra this time , the dry is all i will have time for . The longest search i have done was early evening till 9am , around 14 hours . Took a day to recover from that .

I thought so too but that idea has gone down the U bend because of cashless society. Still there a few days that will produce. My next hit might be one of them , we'll see tomorrow.

On club digs we are allowed to keep anything if its not a treasure item . If treasure then its 50 50 . If not treasure and a farm that isn't a club dig then its 50 50 .

Most of my Gold has been on the beaches but i have found a Gold Mourning ring at a Weekend Wanderers dig on 7 June 2009 and the week before on the same farm but in different fields i found a rare Gold Quarter Stater of the Cantii tribe . I still have that but gave the ring to the farmer after it was returned by the British Museum when they decided that it wasn't wanted by them . I found a Gold wedding band for a friend of my Brother in 2008 , a Gold ring for a neighbours friend that was lost for a while . Took 10 minutes to find. Apart from Roman and 1 Celtic Silver and Hammered coins most of my Silver has been on beaches too . Over 350 Silver rings/Chains + others off the beaches so far since 2006 but only have half of them left . Wish i kept all my finds now .

Its a good way to pay for the hobby . And Gold is far more likely on the beaches than land in many places.

Yesterday after work which i finished at 8pm i got home and had a while to rest before going to the beach for the night . I got there at around 1am and first because the tide was very high and long i used the 705 on the dry tops for the coinage . For the first hour or so i seemed to miss all or most of the coinage , seemed to be passing around them i think . Then when i got to an area near pubs i started to find a steady stream of coinage , after a while i found a then broken now fixed Silver bracelet and a lighter. After that i was still finding more coinage . At around 4am it was starting to get light and i knew it would be time to change to the Nox but for a while longer i stayed with the Terra and then on the tops which in a small area were being turned over by a digger i found an old Silver ring . At about 5am i took the Terra's control box and coil off the Anderson stem and put the Nox box and coil on and started the low tide , soon after i found a small Silver ring and a few coins but the finds were few and far between . At around 6am a few other people turned up to detect and 2 were using Nox's . After seeing and talking to the first one i saw i went along the beach into the surf a bit and found a Silver band . By 7am i was getting a bit knackered and wanted rest but the long low tide kept me going for a bit longer but apart from a few targets i was getting nothing else so at 8.30am i finished and left the beach. My finds with the Terra were £49.96p , a Silver ring and Silver bracelet and the Light and a small foreign coin and a 20 Euro Cent . My finds with the Nox were £4.86p , 2 Silver rings and 2 x 20 Euro Cents . The tides will be getting shorter from now so not sure when i will use the Nox next , maybe a different beach somewhere but my normal beaches are not sandy all the time unless long tides .

Just over $50 . Did better today.

Not so much the distance as the terrain . Not sand , mostly .

Last night i went to the beach with the ET hoping for Gold but didn't find any . By the time the tide was low i was knackered trying to do the tops for 5 hours . I had £33.22p including a £5 note and a few unknown foreign coins . I left at 5am for home . Anyway as i have said in the title . This will be my last hunt for a while with my ET . Yesterday i called the dealer i sold my last Terra 705 and asked if i could buy it back , i need lightweight and the Terra and Nox will be used on the Anderson shaft so i can switch machines on the beach . My next hunt will be on early Sunday morning with the Terra/Nox combo .