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  • 5000 years old bronze axe head

    5000 years old bronze axe head

    Today after finding a 1863 Victorian penny, I then found a musket ball and a couple of modern coins, as I was walking back towards my home after one hours detecting, on my last signal of the day I beg…

  • MXT Superior Detector!

    MXT Superior Detector!

    I purchased your MXT detector a few years ago. I wanted to tell you I really enjoy the equipment, to date I have found a large amount of coins by going over areas that other people have hunted. My bes…

  • One Summer Morning

    One Summer Morning

    One summer morning with my mate to do some metal detecting on some farm land we had permission for. We started to find stuff straight away. I found a loom weight at first, and some old pennies. The b…

  • New Search Area Turns Up Romanesque Find

    New Search Area Turns Up Romanesque Find

    Now that many fields are cropped, finding sites always starts to be a problem. Fortunately we secured permission for a new search area, an ancient village stuffed with medieval moated sites in the su…

  • Digging Out My Very First SDC Nugget

    Digging Out My Very First SDC Nugget

    I had the opportunity to do some testing yesterday with Minelab’s newest SDC 2300. I need to log more hours on the unit, but thus far I can say I am impressed. I took it to one of my old nugget…

  • Just What I Had Been Looking For

    Just What I Had Been Looking For

    Recently I saw a TV programme where a group of metal detectorists were examining the site of a World War I British tank that had been destroyed in France. They found fragments of a tank and from amon…

  • First Day Out With the Safari and a Gold Coin

    First Day Out With the Safari and a Gold Coin

    I received my new Safari on Tuesday December 7th. I had to wait until the following Sunday before I could take her out, it seemed like a month and not five days. I charged the batteries and read the…

  • Civil War Era Officers Button

    Civil War Era Officers Button

    I headed out for a much needed hunt with a buddy yesterday afternoon after work. He gained permission to hunt a large area that used to serve as a mission in the mid to late 1800’s. The ground…