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Post by kevkj on Feb 13, 2016 10:07:31 GMT
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 13, 2016 10:16:12 GMT
Visited a few museums lately and it got me thinking Ive noticed lots of people are getting into this .Hobby or looking for the golden ticket,anyone into this sort of thing. Found this site with all the info bestmetaldetectors.co.uk/I've done a bit,the hardest part is getting permission to use land.Beaches are free though you just need to have a permit (which is also free),off the net. I've never found anything good,but have a lovely collects of rusty nails. |
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Post by redstriper on Feb 13, 2016 11:16:44 GMT
Fresh air, exercise, a bit of historical research, the chance of striking lucky, and in the UK a much better chance of finding something worthwhile in a smaller search area than most countries. So far I've not been often and found jack all of value - but I plan to do a lot more when my new campervan is ready and I have more time to spare (whenever that is)
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Post by felonious on Feb 13, 2016 11:57:50 GMT
Never done it but The Detectorists was brilliant  |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 13, 2016 20:28:09 GMT
A friend found a 100 yr old swimming medal on Devonport Park in Plymouth. I helped him to build a picture of its owner using Ancestry.com. Really fascinating and spookily there was a link to Stockton Brook through one of the medal owners ancestors.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Feb 13, 2016 21:15:38 GMT
A friend found a 100 yr old swimming medal on Devonport Park in Plymouth. I helped him to build a picture of its owner using Ancestry.com. Really fascinating and spookily there was a link to Stockton Brook through one of the medal owners ancestors. Having dived into the wintery drink around the Hoe a few times, and now living in Stockton Brook I find your medal find really interesting. What was the connection? a name, a family, an address? I always found Swilley a brilliant place in Plymouth, not been there for 20 years or so, cobbled streets down to the sea, rough. |
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Post by felonious on Feb 14, 2016 17:23:24 GMT
Any of you metal detectors found any Simon and Garfunkel memorabilia on your travels?
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Post by innocentbystander on Feb 15, 2016 20:32:51 GMT
Metal detectorists are mostly vermin who wreck archaeological sites by ripping artifacts out of context.
The gormless dole-sponger who found the Staffordshire Hoard took it all home and didn't report it until he realised he had more than he could discretely flog on ebay, so find-spots were not accurately recorded and any context was also lost.
Proper archaeologists can extract far more information from a find in context than ripped out of it.
Some detectorists acknowledge this and co-operate (and if the find is valuable they end up better off than selling on the black market}but there's a nasty fringe who deliberately target legally protected sites and loot them by night.
As Pauline says the hardest part is finding a land owner who will trust you to be honest, because many detectorists are just money minded looters.
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 15, 2016 21:25:49 GMT
Metal detectorists are mostly vermin who wreck archaeological sites by ripping artifacts out of context. The gormless dole-sponger who found the Staffordshire Hoard took it all home and didn't report it until he realised he had more than he could discretely flog on ebay, so find-spots were not accurately recorded and any context was also lost. Proper archaeologists can extract far more information from a find in context than ripped out of it. Some detectorists acknowledge this and co-operate (and if the find is valuable they end up better off than selling on the black market}but there's a nasty fringe who deliberately target legally protected sites and loot them by night. As Pauline says the hardest part is finding a land owner who will trust you to be honest, because many detectorists are just money minded looters. What a load of bollocks.he found a lot of stuff and quite rightly took it home (should he have left it in the field)bearing in mind a good detectorist takes all his finds home.realising what he had uncovered,the farmer (land owner) and all the relevant authorities were contacted.they then did their own sweep and found lots more stuff.All of which was kept out of the public eye for obvious reasons. You'd be supprised at how little a find is classed as a hoard. And what's wrong with someone who doesn't work going out and sweeping a field or two? Last time I checked you didn't need to be employed to own a metal detector,perhaps he should just sit at home doing nowt. Yes he made a lot of money from his efforts but he unearthed far more in history value. |
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Post by ryan4england on Feb 15, 2016 22:39:32 GMT
Why would you declare where you found it, you could take it home, dig a hole and say you found it in your own back yard, Who can prove otherwise?
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Post by innocentbystander on Feb 15, 2016 22:40:05 GMT
And now he's preventing archaeologists from doing further work there by refusing to give up any claim on any further finds (unlike the land owner). He's already had £1.75m of mostly public money for something that was never his - that's everybody's history, not just his.
He should have alerted archaeologists after finding two or three pieces, not hundreds over several days.
A "good" detectorist does not take his finds home, he leaves them in situ and reports them to PAS so they and their context can be properly excavated.
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Post by ryan4england on Feb 15, 2016 22:42:23 GMT
If the land owner gets a cut sod the history of the find its about the future of the bank account
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Feb 16, 2016 2:08:15 GMT
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Post by Northy on Feb 16, 2016 8:08:10 GMT
Why would you declare where you found it, you could take it home, dig a hole and say you found it in your own back yard, Who can prove otherwise? Some forensic person with soil anaysis skills ? |
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Post by innocentbystander on Feb 16, 2016 20:15:28 GMT
Why would you declare where you found it, you could take it home, dig a hole and say you found it in your own back yard, Who can prove otherwise? Some forensic person with soil analysis skills ? Yep, just about any archaeologist. |
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 16, 2016 22:40:48 GMT
Why would you declare where you found it, you could take it home, dig a hole and say you found it in your own back yard, Who can prove otherwise? The chances are that most back yards are made of the building waste from the house being built. So to find a roman coin(just for instance)in a pile of fucking broken roof tiles and off cuts of plaster board is stupid in the extreme. As for leaving finds in the ground?????? The whole point of detecting is digging up finds,whether it's a gold buckle or a rusty gate hinge,you NEVER throw it back in the field.It's good practice to take any shit(regardless of value) you find home with you. I pretty sure a farmer would go fucking nuts if one of his cattle got hurt stepping or grazing on a rusty nail you've just dug up and slung back on the ground. |
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 16, 2016 22:42:13 GMT
Some forensic person with soil analysis skills ? Yep, just about any archaeologist. Thick as fuck...... |
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Post by samba :) on Feb 17, 2016 0:14:41 GMT
Metal detectorists are mostly vermin who wreck archaeological sites by ripping artifacts out of context. The gormless dole-sponger who found the Staffordshire Hoard took it all home and didn't report it until he realised he had more than he could discretely flog on ebay, so find-spots were not accurately recorded and any context was also lost. Proper archaeologists can extract far more information from a find in context than ripped out of it. Some detectorists acknowledge this and co-operate (and if the find is valuable they end up better off than selling on the black market}but there's a nasty fringe who deliberately target legally protected sites and loot them by night. As Pauline says the hardest part is finding a land owner who will trust you to be honest, because many detectorists are just money minded looters. What a load of bollocks.he found a lot of stuff and quite rightly took it home (should he have left it in the field)bearing in mind a good detectorist takes all his finds home.realising what he had uncovered,the farmer (land owner) and all the relevant authorities were contacted.they then did their own sweep and found lots more stuff.All of which was kept out of the public eye for obvious reasons. You'd be supprised at how little a find is classed as a hoard. And what's wrong with someone who doesn't work going out and sweeping a field or two? Last time I checked you didn't need to be employed to own a metal detector,perhaps he should just sit at home doing nowt. Yes he made a lot of money from his efforts but he unearthed far more in history value. you bit... |
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Post by ryan4england on Feb 17, 2016 19:54:08 GMT
Yep, just about any archaeologist. Thick as fuck...... So what happens if you scrub the stuff clean in soapy water and a scrubber? |
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 18, 2016 12:46:30 GMT
So what happens if you scrub the stuff clean in soapy water and a scrubber? Don't bring the Mrs into this;) |
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Post by redstriper on Feb 18, 2016 12:49:18 GMT
I've just arranged to go over a couple of fields on a colleagues land, part of the site of the civil war battle of rowton moor. I'll let you all know if I find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot  |
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Post by paulinespens on Feb 18, 2016 18:54:48 GMT
I've just arranged to go over a couple of fields on a colleagues land, part of the site of the civil war battle of rowton moor. I'll let you all know if I find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot Where's Rowton Moor? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 19:34:23 GMT
I've just arranged to go over a couple of fields on a colleagues land, part of the site of the civil war battle of rowton moor. I'll let you all know if I find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot Where's Rowton Moor? It's near Chester mate . |
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Post by yeokel on Dec 29, 2017 12:00:57 GMT
I've just arranged to go over a couple of fields on a colleagues land, part of the site of the civil war battle of rowton moor. I'll let you all know if I find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot I take it you didn't find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot? |
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Post by rogerjonesisgod on Dec 29, 2017 12:24:34 GMT
Johnny Flynn was in the open mic pub scene..... |
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Post by Pedropotter on Dec 29, 2017 13:09:43 GMT
I've just arranged to go over a couple of fields on a colleagues land, part of the site of the civil war battle of rowton moor. I'll let you all know if I find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot :) I take it you didn't find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot? Did you not read about the 'Rowton Moor Hoard'!? |
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Post by yeokel on Dec 29, 2017 13:18:42 GMT
I take it you didn't find anything better than the odd piece of lead shot? Did you not read about the 'Rowton Moor Hoard'!? Not yet, no. |
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Post by redstriper on Dec 30, 2017 10:55:14 GMT
Reporting in: I found -- some lead shot. but got a new site outside Wrexham where there have been finds before... so hope springs eternal |
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Post by neworleanstokie on Dec 30, 2017 17:41:37 GMT
I put in hours and hours back in the early 80s when I was a teen. Really enjoyed it but sites must be much harder to come by now. However England has to be one of the best countries to detect in. I'd love to get back into it when I retire! Plus the detectors are much improved and probably get less false positives and go deeper. I found dozens of typically Victorian coins, a medal etc. etc.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jan 31, 2018 10:53:52 GMT
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