What Detecting is All About

This has to be my best find ever and I have found some really great artefacts. Brand new land, which is steeped in history within 1/2 mile of a Manor House and on a "How" a mound which was used in the early medieval times as a meeting place to exchange goods and news, all being overlooked and in control of the Lord of the Manor.

It was one of those days which my detecting buddy and I had great expectations for. All indications would suggest many great finds. After two hours of finding nothing, not even a rusty nail. I had just set off to make my way back to the Landi to make a cuppa indicating to my buddy Neil to follow in 5 minutes when the land owner tapped me on my shoulder. I stuck my spade in the ground and rested the E-TRAC on it as you do. The E-TRAC gave such a loud and clear high pitch sound, thinking that it was the spade that had given the signal I took my headphones off to talk to the land owner.

After a brief chat I picked up the E-TRAC and was surprised to find that it was not the spade. With the landowner looking on I dug a plug of soil out of the turf, and between 6 and 8 inches down and the bottom of the hole the land owner and I found our selves looking at a 11-12c Heraldic Pendant with gold and blue enamel decoration it measures 50mm across with the suspension loop still intact. It is beautiful, this is what detecting is all about.