A breakdown of my metal detecting find. Remember this is all from 1 pile found in the woods.

Here is a photo, video on youtube, of a Sat hunt with a friend in a private park. My total in coins today was 112 of them...

First century artefact

A breakdown of my metal detecting find. Remember this is all from 1 pile found in the woods.

Metal Detector finds, Folsom, Calif., Feb. 17, 2020.

Some of my finds from the 1970's to the early 2000's

Many of these finds were STOLEN in 2000!

Metal detecting: Reviewing our find after hunting a local high school.

1 piece of C14th medieval pottery, 4 Roman sherds and three worked flint tools.

Images from my book: The Art and Science of Metal Detecting. www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Metal-Detecting/dp/1517255104/.

Fabric recovered photographed together for scale.

A mix of Romano-British pottery and medieval to post medieval pottery.

A breakdown of my metal detecting find. Remember this is all from 1 pile found in the woods.

Again taken at Talacre beach. I was very brave and asked could I take some shots. he was very nice and said "Of course" So I did....

Going metal detecting on the river.

A breakdown of my metal detecting find. Remember this is all from 1 pile found in the woods.

enjoing metal detecting at Ayr Beach.

The Staffordshire Hoard, the latest find of ancient gold artefacts in a farmers field, uncovered by a metal detector. The delicate workmanship is really amazing on the tiny pieces on show.

I found this watch fob while taking part in a Scottish Metal Detecting Rally in 2011.

It was found in a field near the Parish Church of Kinneswood and Portmoak near Loch Leven in Kinross.

Having once belonged to a Rev. A. Brown

My oldest coin found to date.Incredible to think of the distance this coin has travelled.

Head of Tanit facing left/ Horse standing right in front of palm tree.

Apparently the greatest number of these found in the UK have been in Thanet England. (Thanet/Tanit)

Sand scoops for metal detecting are a little pricey for a once a year beach trip. Here is an attempt to create one from the cone of an old aluminum sauce pan The pan was $0.50 at a local second-hand store.

The Aluminum is light, won't rust, and drills easily.

I drilled 3/8 in. holes in at regular intervals and then widened them to about 1/2 with a file. This is large enough for wet sand, but small enough to keep a dime in.

A breakdown of my metal detecting find. Remember this is all from 1 pile found in the woods.

Capgun found at the site of a home that is no longer standing. The site is now used as an overflow parking lot for a local Church.

7 pennies dating from 1980's to 2000

Dime from the 1980's

Rabbies Vaccination Tag from 1995

Button that was painted pink on the other side.

Brass metal piece that looks like a slice of a threshold for a doorway.

Dug with Permission

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Two coins stuck together .

Possibly Georginan

Two pin-pointers for metal detecting are compared. One is more expensive, but I prefer it -- just seems more durable and reliable. The less expensive model seemed to keep beeping when wet.

I think this guy found all the good stuff....I found so many Corona bottle caps, I think I got tipsy touching them.

This is a record illustration of an Iron Age terret made of bronze. A terret is a metal ring, they have been found in sets of four fixed to the wooden shoulder yoke in Iron Age chariot burials. The yokes are for a pair of ponies, the terrets guides the the two sets of rains from the chariot and driver to the heads of the ponies. This terret had dark blue and yellow enamel set into the bronze knobs on either side, the top one is missing. It was a reported metal detector find found in spoil from a ditch. The illustration was produced to scale at twice the size of the object, so that it was possible to show more fine detail. When it is published it is reduced to same size with a scale. Objects are published as drawings rather than photographs so that there is no perspective in the image, and they can be measured. In a drawing it is also possible to leave out areas of corrosion and show very fine detail it would not be possible to show in just one image of an object as you can in a drawing.