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A metal detectorist on the beach at Pembrey in golden light.
An archive shot posted for Smile on Saturday theme Shades of Gold.
HSoS 😊
Spent a fair part of summer on various beaches and this was a common sight after high tide.
Taken from King’s Parade in New Brighton just after sunset.
Hi all hope everyone’s had a lovely weekend.
I’ve been away all week in the beautiful Peak District, got a few photos to go through but couldn’t resist posting a quick one of this little loveheart in a leaf to cheer us all up on a dark night! The Autumn colours up in that part of the country were a lot more evident than here in the East, so beautiful.....
Once again this was a case of me pointing my camera upwards at a tree for ages and nearly falling into a ditch, while passers by thought I was photographing some kind of rare bird! No, it’s just a leaf….but a very cool leaf!
Starting to wish I’d taken tomorrow off work too but it’s back to the grindstone in the morning, but not before an evening of catching up with Corrie and Detectorists (please tell me someone else watches Detectorists? It’s the best thing on TV!) Wishing everyone a great week ahead :)
While walking the River Wey last Sunday, I saw this chap with his metal detector in a fenced off field. I am not sure if he should have been in there as he kept looking up and around as if he was up to something....
The Detectorist is a British Comedy about two chaps and their love of looking for treasure.
Will you search through the lonely earth for me
Climb through the briar and bramble
I will be your treasure
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind
I knew the call of all the song birds
They sang all the wrong words
I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for you
Would you drift o'er the rolling fields for me
Hoard me in the highest bough
I'll be your treasure, I'll be your treasure
~ Johnny Flynn, Detectorists
As sunrise is starting to edge back to a more socially acceptable time it was time to set the alarm and get up and see what the sunrise had to offer. With the grockles still tucked up in bed and with only a metal detectorist for company this was the scene at around 5.30am at Paignton beach.
Sadly I didn't see the sun as the bank of cloud in the background edged in as time went on
Found by a metal detectorist in Shropshire in 2018, and bought by the British Museum for £250,000. Sheet gold, masterfully engraved, it's thought to represent the rising sun. It's worth watching this short video of the pendant being rotated in strong light: twitter.com/NWilkinBM/status/1072441169861328896
This article discusses the historic context, and show other views of the artifact: www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/53616
Dimensions: 1.25 x 2 in (3.6 x 4.7cm)
A metal detectorist got Seamill beach all to himself on a lovely still day, The isle of Arran outline faint in the background.
After a morning of indecision, I took the bus to Morecambe Bay. What a glorious afternoon it was.
Morecambe Bay has been described as a pit-stop for migrating birds that come from the Arctic to over-winter and feed on the millions of creatures that live in the sand, marshes, and salt marshes.
Try hitting 'L' and wander about the image - on the extreme left is a 'detectorist' who risks the quicksands in this area (a sheep was rescued near here only yesterday). Looking across the bay you can see Grange-over-Sands, Barrow-in Furness, and possibly a bit of Ulverston.
In the distance you can see the fells of Cumbria/Lake District.
Map, here:
Olympus OM-10
G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8
Fujicolor C200 (expired 2012) @100asa
Lab Developed.
Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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From the Achieves, re-processed using Photoshop CC 2022.
Please, no group invites; thank you!
Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters and RHS Harlow Carr gardens. Nearby is the Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate grew out of two existing smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, in the 17th century. It is consistently voted as one of the best places to live in the UK and in 2013 a poll by Rightmove of 40,000 people found that Harrogate was the happiest place to live in the United Kingdom. In 2013 Harrogate was declared to be the third most romantic destination in the world, beating off rivals including Paris, Rome and Vienna. Harrogate spa water contains iron, sulphur and common salt. The town became known as 'The English Spa' in the Georgian Era, after its waters were discovered in the 16th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries the 'chalybeate' waters (i.e. containing iron) were a popular health treatment, and the influx of wealthy but sickly visitors contributed significantly to the wealth of the town. The town motto is Arx celebris fontibus, which means "a citadel famous for its springs." The name Harrogate is first attested in the 1330s as Harwegate. It seems to derive from Old Norse hǫrgr 'a heap of stones, cairn' + gata 'street', in which case the name presumably meant 'road to the cairn'. Before the discovery of its iron and sulphur rich water, Harrogate comprised two hamlets, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, close to Knaresborough. The first mineral spring was discovered in 1571 by William Slingsby, who found that water from the Tewit Well possessed similar properties to that from the springs of the Belgian town of Spa, which gave its name to spa towns. The medicinal properties of the waters were publicised by Edmund Deane. His book, Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spa Fountain was published in 1626. Harrogate developed a spa town following the enclosure of surrounding lands in 1770, when 200 acres (0.81 km2) were reserved as a public common, the Stray, which has remained a spot for picnicking, kite-flying, outdoor games and local football matches. To provide entertainment for increasing numbers of visitors the Georgian Theatre was built in 1788. Bath Hospital (later the Royal Bath Hospital) was built in 1826. The Royal Pump Room was built in 1842. In 1870, engineering inventor Samson Fox perfected the process of creating water gas, in the basement laboratory of Grove House. After constructing a trial plant at his home on Scarborough Road, making it the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating; he built a town-sized plant to supply Harrogate. After he made Parliament Street the world's first route to be lit by water-gas, newspapers commented: "Samson Fox has captured the sunlight for Harrogate." After donating the towns first fire engine, and building the town's theatre, he was elected mayor for three years, an unbroken record. The site of Tewit Well is marked by a dome on the Stray. Other wells can be found in Harrogate's Valley Gardens and the Royal Pump Room museum. In 1893 Harrogate doctor George Oliver was the first to observe the effect of adrenaline on the circulation. In 2007, two metal detectorists found the Harrogate hoard, a 10th-century Viking treasure hoard, near Harrogate. The hoard contains almost 700 coins and other items from as far away as Afghanistan. The hoard was described by the British Museum as the most important find of its type in Britain for 150 years.
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these metal detectorists were searching under Saltburn pier with this magnificent sunset going down.
A detectorist walking near Mary’s Shell in Thornton - Cleveleys, Lancashire. Mary’s shell is a very popular photography destination as the sun sets approximately behind it quite a lot of the year, combine this with a long exposure and a good tide and you can achieve amazing results. I’ve never been there at the right time though although I was quite pleased with this grab shot.
The landscape at Winnall Winchester, including stray metal detectorists on Sunday :)
#winchester #winnall #metaldetector #landscape #olympus @olympusUK
A tree in the fog while we were metal detecting near Andover on Sunday :) amongst other things I founds a toasted George 3 Half Penny and a large flower shaped strap mount (yet to be identified)
#andover #landscape #tree #fog #hampshire #metaldetecting #olympus #OMd #EM5iii @olympusUK
Scarborough Beach UK (Gold Coins, Ducats, Ceremonial Masks, Treasure Hoards, Dinosaurs, ZX Spectrums, Kings' Ransoms, fossils, trilobites, Shergar, Betamax videos etc...
To see more views of Harrogate, in Yorkshire, please click
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I would be most grateful if you would refrain from inserting images, and/or group invites; thank you!
Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters and RHS Harlow Carr gardens. Nearby is the Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate grew out of two existing smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, in the 17th century. It is consistently voted as one of the best places to live in the UK and in 2013 a poll by Rightmove of 40,000 people found that Harrogate was the happiest place to live in the United Kingdom. In 2013 Harrogate was declared to be the third most romantic destination in the world, beating off rivals including Paris, Rome and Vienna. Harrogate spa water contains iron, sulphur and common salt. The town became known as 'The English Spa' in the Georgian Era, after its waters were discovered in the 16th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries the 'chalybeate' waters (i.e. containing iron) were a popular health treatment, and the influx of wealthy but sickly visitors contributed significantly to the wealth of the town. The town motto is Arx celebris fontibus, which means "a citadel famous for its springs." The name Harrogate is first attested in the 1330s as Harwegate. It seems to derive from Old Norse hǫrgr 'a heap of stones, cairn' + gata 'street', in which case the name presumably meant 'road to the cairn'. Before the discovery of its iron and sulphur rich water, Harrogate comprised two hamlets, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, close to Knaresborough. The first mineral spring was discovered in 1571 by William Slingsby, who found that water from the Tewit Well possessed similar properties to that from the springs of the Belgian town of Spa, which gave its name to spa towns. The medicinal properties of the waters were publicised by Edmund Deane. His book, Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spa Fountain was published in 1626. Harrogate developed a spa town following the enclosure of surrounding lands in 1770, when 200 acres (0.81 km2) were reserved as a public common, the Stray, which has remained a spot for picnicking, kite-flying, outdoor games and local football matches. To provide entertainment for increasing numbers of visitors the Georgian Theatre was built in 1788. Bath Hospital (later the Royal Bath Hospital) was built in 1826. The Royal Pump Room was built in 1842. In 1870, engineering inventor Samson Fox perfected the process of creating water gas, in the basement laboratory of Grove House. After constructing a trial plant at his home on Scarborough Road, making it the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating; he built a town-sized plant to supply Harrogate. After he made Parliament Street the world's first route to be lit by water-gas, newspapers commented: "Samson Fox has captured the sunlight for Harrogate." After donating the towns first fire engine, and building the town's theatre, he was elected mayor for three years, an unbroken record. The site of Tewit Well is marked by a dome on the Stray. Other wells can be found in Harrogate's Valley Gardens and the Royal Pump Room museum. In 1893 Harrogate doctor George Oliver was the first to observe the effect of adrenaline on the circulation. In 2007, two metal detectorists found the Harrogate hoard, a 10th-century Viking treasure hoard, near Harrogate. The hoard contains almost 700 coins and other items from as far away as Afghanistan. The hoard was described by the British Museum as the most important find of its type in Britain for 150 years.
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