I've been involved with metal detecting since 1978.
Over that period I've gained some knowledge on the hobby.

Here we are in 2022, and I'm extremely happy to report that we are at a great stage in our progression. 
Even though our last season was disappointing, we still managed to recover some great artefacts.

I recently visited 3 detecting forums that I've not posted on for quite a while.
One in particular was extremely hostile to the free advice given.

I think I'll give the forums a miss and let them dwell on their pie-in-the-sky dreams. 

​On a MUCH brighter note, we're out this weekend.

Another early start visiting a field we only skirted around in 2016.
This is the field that the landowner asked us to search for a gold earring that was lost by one of the shooters. The lady that lost it was a very high ranking official in UNESCO. We did find it by the way :)

The weather wasn't too bad and the field was drilled with wheat.
It was looking good when fragments of Medieval pottery started to show.
A cut-half was the first Medieval artefact to see the light of day with a cut-quarter following as well as a nice small buckle.

Oddly enough, we ended up at the other end of the field that I suggested we search and on the return leg of the journey a signal was heard. It was another quite shallow signal, about 4-inches deep and when extracted the finders heart skipped a beat for a nano second. The finder said "Jeeps! I thought it was a piece of a gold coin". Now, thinking it was a piece of gold foil, brushing away a little of the soil revealed latin embossed wording around the circumference. Indeed, it was a gold hammered coin!

We carried on with the survey until the heavens openedand boy, did the sky open! Within 3-minutes we were soaked.

We called in at the landowners farmhouse to show them the first gold coin we'd ever found there since detecting at the estate in 2016.
After tea and biscuits we bid our farewell's and made the journey home.