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  • Iron Age / Roman Strap Fitting

    Iron Age / Roman Strap Fitting

    I am a member of Ambers Digs, a group of detectorists that venture out most Sundays in the North East of England. Recently the group had its annual rally which consisted of a weekend camp on farm lan…

  • First Silver with My New E-TRAC

    First Silver with My New E-TRAC

    I got my new E-TRAC less than a month ago and was only able to hunt a couple times. I decided to get out in the cold weather and go to an old house in town that I got permission to hunt the day befor…

  • CTX "Dirty Girty" Large Coil attached

    CTX "Dirty Girty" Large Coil attached

    After a few weeks of looking at the CTX 17 Smart Coil for the CTX 3030, I decided to give it a go on a dig with the Southern Detectorist Group (SDG). The coil is really well balanced and I swung it a…

  • Very Exciting

    Very Exciting

    I was out on my boat having a great day when I got a call from the guy who owns our local metal detector shop. He said that he got a call from a couple who were taking wedding pictures an hour before…

  • 2 Rare Saxon Coins

    2 Rare Saxon Coins

    Myself and my club members went onto new permission and after finding many 303s and lead people were getting a bit despondent and moving to different fields, but I stayed and hit a flat patch of past…

  • E-TRAC finds a lost wedding band

    E-TRAC finds a lost wedding band

    I was asked to use my metal detector to help find a lost wedding band for a friend of a friend. He was spreading salt on his sidewalk to melt the snow when his ring fell off and landed in a flower bed…

  • Back Yard Yields Rare Coin

    Back Yard Yields Rare Coin

    Hello, Here is my story. My time to detect has been limited due to my recent job requirements, so I chose a close location to detect (my back yard!) I am fortunate to live in a very history rich area…

  • Knights and Treasures

    Knights and Treasures

    The village where I live is a village where even the Romans roam over the country. So it has existed for a long time. We have encountered a lot of natural disasters. One of the most known is the big…

  • My Best Finds are with CTX-3030

    My Best Finds are with CTX-3030

    Hello all satisfied users of Minelab detectors, which can be more than two and a half years old. I count also, of course, all those who are involved in the fact that these detectors are absolutely ama…