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[oldmxrat]

Got a tiny front yard permission yesterday at a 1930s house. Looked as slowly and methodically as I could and felt like I had beat it to death in just over an hour.
Pulled a little 10k gold ring, a 1927 merc and about $1.50 in clad.

 

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[pepperj]

Also I already have Celtic gold, po

I live in Colchester, capital of Romania britan and centre of the tribes pre romans.history here basically spans humans in England

Yeah realistically I have maybe less than 200 hours of detecting since I started. My first detector was a second hand Chinese one that we paid too much for (paid £120 and goes for like as low as 60 even new)

It was August 28 or something like that when I got my xTerra ans started detecting since. Beside like 2 modern coins I had nothing from my first detector so my entire collection is from end of August this year

That's exactly where I have my 100 hours of digging in Colchester (area).
I haven't been since the spring of 2015 (Lung issues)
I have many hours of great memories of the awesome recoveries that I made and seeing others making theirs.

Really you are very fortunate to be living right there and basically digging for free when ever the need arises.

I was really fortunate in spending thousands of dollars each trip to beat the body up/catch some lurgy off another person/eat crap food/dig up crap.
The flip side is to go on a holiday that gave an opportunity of an open door to dig up old history/treasures with every beep-did it happen with every beep-heck no. But it happened enough to scratch the itch and to want to dig even more.

 

[pepperj]

Got a tiny front yard permission yesterday at a 1930s house. Looked as slowly and methodically as I could and felt like I had beat it to death in just over an hour.
Pulled a little 10k gold ring, a 1927 merc and about $1.50 in clad.
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Congrats on yet another silver.
Ya that gold isn't too shabby either

 

[aShardOfHistory]

That's exactly where I have my 100 hours of digging in Colchester (area).
I haven't been since the spring of 2015 (Lung issues)
I have many hours of great memories of the awesome recoveries that I made and seeing others making theirs.

Really you are very fortunate to be living right there and basically digging for free when ever the need arises.

I was really fortunate in spending thousands of dollars each trip to beat the body up/catch some lurgy off another person/eat crap food/dig up crap.
The flip side is to go on a holiday that gave an opportunity of an open door to dig up old history/treasures with every beep-did it happen with every beep-heck no. But it happened enough to scratch the itch and to want to dig even more.

Darn that sucks, and food stays crap of you live here🤣

Where abouts did you detect? Most of my permissions are just south west of Colchester.

Have a few permissions throughout tho.

And yes we moved here in 2008 I think, Colchester is an awesome place for history not as much for living

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Also I'm Romania we live along a main travel route (no alternative unless you want a large detour even in present day) so a fair few armies have crossed throughout and battled there. On my property alone I got 30+ WW1 casings of various countries and 2 uniform buttons

 

[pepperj]

Darn that sucks, and food stays crap of you live here🤣

Where abouts did you detect? Most of my permissions are just south west of Colchester.

Have a few permissions throughout tho.

And yes we moved here in 2008 I think, Colchester is an awesome place for history not as much for living

Basically NE of the A120 mostly.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Basically NE of the A120 mostly.

Ah, should be a fairly decent but empty location I'd say. Probably less modern trash but also less reallllyyy old stuff

 

[pepperj]

Ah, should be a fairly decent but empty location I'd say. Probably less modern trash but also less reallllyyy old stuff

Yes little was found
Kind of a crap area.
Then again I suck at detecting compared to others.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Yes little was found
Kind of a crap area.
Then again I suck at detecting compared to others.

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Soooooo many hammered coins, think like 1200s the oldest?

 

[pepperj]

Ah, should be a fairly decent but empty location I'd say. Probably less modern trash but also less reallllyyy old stuff

A member of the club found a Bronze Age Axe Hoard
We're talking that's probably some of the oldest stuff anyone will dig.

 

[JVA5th]

Yes little was found
Kind of a crap area.
Then again I suck at detecting compared to others.

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Aw darn pepper you suck at this look at all those weirdly shapped pieces of aluminum slaw lol.

 

[pepperj]

Soooooo many hammered coins, think like 1200s the oldest?

My 3 Roman silvers lot older

 

[pepperj]

Aw darn pepper you suck at this look at all those weirdly shapped pieces of aluminum slaw lol.

I know what's up with that!

 

[aShardOfHistory]

My 3 Roman silvers lot older

And here you are complaining, my 3 Romans looked like frozen pea mush so I only think they're roman

 

[pepperj]

Aw darn pepper you suck at this look at all those weirdly shapped pieces of aluminum slaw lol.

I have to stop running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off.
Covering 5 acres a hour
With my coil tilted up like a pancake flipper
Swinging it like a golf club.
My New Year's Resolution to work on my skills

 

[pepperj]

And here you are complaining, my 3 Romans looked like frozen pea mush so I only think they're roman

Post them up-I'll show you mine post cooking.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

I have to stop running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off.
Covering 5 acres a hour
With my coil tilted up like a pancake flipper
Swinging it like a golf club.
My New Year's Resolution to work on my skills

Are you by chance my dad? Nvm you didn't includes dead battery and digging dirt with the pinpointer

 

[JVA5th]

I have to stop running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off.
Covering 5 acres a hour
With my coil tilted up like a pancake flipper
Swinging it like a golf club.
My New Year's Resolution to work on my skills

Lol. I think I'm going to end up in a bad way gold rush areas are in the poison oak areas and me and poison oak we don't get along at all

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Post them up-I'll show you mine post cooking.

I'll have to find them so will show you later but it's literally green coin shaped bits of metal with no detail and supposedly no chance of ever having detail cleaned up

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Post them up-I'll show you mine post cooking.

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